Confectionery Tips, Tutorials, and News

  Want to learn how to splatter gold paint on a cake? It’s really very easy! All you need is some gold lustre dust, grain alcohol and a clean brush.Start by placing a small amount of lustre dust in a container. In the video I use a plastic painter’s palette but you can use an empty tube, small bowl or other container. It just needs to be wide enough to put your brush in it.Pour some of the grain alcohol onto the lustre dust and mix it well. Don’t overdo it or the mixture will be too thin making it...

Are you a video game lover? Know someone who is? Check out this video game controller that we made with one of our special 3-part chocolate moulds and painted with gold lustre dust.Once filled and painted, you can box up the joystick and give it as a gift. You can also use it to decorate a cake.You can watch the step-by-step video tutorial above. I’ll add some details below.The special mould by BWB has 3 parts which make it really easy to create perfect chocolate forms of any shape. No need to brush on thin layer after thin layer to...