MAKING PURPLE FONDANT

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Permalink Reply by Mandy Nel on September 21, 2012 at 4:02am

Wow everybody - so glad to hear all your advice!  I am not aware that we get satin ice or Duff's - bakels is the product that we get easily in SA.  Magdalena has suggested that I use rolkem or barco powders (we only get barco here in this neck of the woods) and I am going to go with your suggestions to add a dash of clear vanilla.  I do have an airbrush and could use the regal purple gel watered down with some alcohol to spray it - am going to do a little dummy run this weekend and see what I come up with.  Thank you so much everybody for taking the time to give me advice - I know that the cake will be beautiful but also just want the taste to be 100 percent perfect as well xox  Have a great weekend all, I am on leave for the next week and will try to catch up with you all from home, but if you don't hear from me for a while, I will chat when back in this saddle.  God bless xxx

Permalink Reply by Mandy Nel on September 21, 2012 at 4:11am

I'm just wondering .....what if I made marshmallow fondant and added some blueberry juice (only get tinned variety here in my town) and then add some of the regal purple gel till I get right colour?  Might just work and taste good too - will give it a go and report back :-)

Permalink Reply by Mandy Nel on October 1, 2012 at 6:27am

Thank you all you lovelies - I eventually airbrushed the cake and it came out beautifully - my talented daughter came home and I taught her how to do the airbrushing and we made the arum lilies and I covered, stacked and drew the lines, and together we put it together - the bride was very happy indeed.  Thank you all for your input :-)

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Permalink Reply by Katy Nott on October 1, 2012 at 7:01am

Oh wow, wow Mandy.  What a spectacular result!  Gorgeous colour and great job all round.  so glad all worked out so brilliantly for you and the bride.

Permalink Reply by Mandy Nel on October 1, 2012 at 7:37am

Thanks Katy - I must admit that the colour just popped against the white arum lilies and the light yellow centres - thank you xox

Katy Nott said:

Oh wow, wow Mandy.  What a spectacular result!  Gorgeous colour and great job all round.  so glad all worked out so brilliantly for you and the bride.

Permalink Reply by Lydia Beier on October 1, 2012 at 11:25am

Mandy that is absolutely stunning!  Your colours, technique, flowers are all awesome!

Permalink Reply by Sandi Newsome on October 1, 2012 at 7:38pm

Your cake is spectacular.  I sure wish I could use an airbrush, if I could I would never cover a cake with colored fondant again.  Great job

Permalink Reply by Mandy Nel on October 2, 2012 at 2:26am

Hi Sandra, I promise you that it is really much easier than you think.  My darling husband bought me a normal commercial airbrush and compressor and I have been using only food colour and gel mixed with some vodka and after spending a couple of evenings practicing to get my airbrushing techniques perfected, with the help of some fabulous online tutorials (google how to airbrush) I now cover most of my cakes with white fondant (even buttercream) and then airbrush the colours I want - quick and easy and somehow the colours are more vivid than when mixed in the fondant.

 

Here are two examples - the twilight cake was covered in white and airbrushed black and you can see the deep colour it created - I used black gel colour mixed with vodka (even when I mix black colour in to my fondant I never seem to get this depth of colour); the hello kitty cake was all white buttercream and I used robertsons pink food colouring to airbrush deep pink at base of cake, lightening it up to the top where I left it virtually all white - I find that this type of colouring makes a very nice background for most decorations - please do try it, I promise you will never look back! :-)

 

 

 

Sandra Newsome said:

Your cake is spectacular.  I sure wish I could use an airbrush, if I could I would never cover a cake with colored fondant again.  Great job

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Permalink Reply by Tracy Deadman on October 2, 2012 at 2:52am

Fabulous colour Mandy & sweet the whole way through :)

Permalink Reply by Mandy Nel on October 2, 2012 at 2:58am

thanku :-)

Laurie Beier said:

Mandy that is absolutely stunning!  Your colours, technique, flowers are all awesome!

Permalink Reply by Mandy Nel on October 2, 2012 at 2:58am

Thanku :-)

Tracy Deadman said:

Fabulous colour Mandy & sweet the whole way through :)

Permalink Reply by Katy Nott on October 2, 2012 at 6:35am

Wow Mandy, you're so right!  Those colours are fabulous, so rich and deep.  
Mandy Nel said:

Hi Sandra, I promise you that it is really much easier than you think.  My darling husband bought me a normal commercial airbrush and compressor and I have been using only food colour and gel mixed with some vodka and after spending a couple of evenings practicing to get my airbrushing techniques perfected, with the help of some fabulous online tutorials (google how to airbrush) I now cover most of my cakes with white fondant (even buttercream) and then airbrush the colours I want - quick and easy and somehow the colours are more vivid than when mixed in the fondant.

 

Here are two examples - the twilight cake was covered in white and airbrushed black and you can see the deep colour it created - I used black gel colour mixed with vodka (even when I mix black colour in to my fondant I never seem to get this depth of colour); the hello kitty cake was all white buttercream and I used robertsons pink food colouring to airbrush deep pink at base of cake, lightening it up to the top where I left it virtually all white - I find that this type of colouring makes a very nice background for most decorations - please do try it, I promise you will never look back! :-)

 

 

 

Sandra Newsome said:

Your cake is spectacular.  I sure wish I could use an airbrush, if I could I would never cover a cake with colored fondant again.  Great job

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