Hey everyone and welcome to my channel Cakes by MK. So a lot of you have asked
me whether I could do a video on how to make an edible gold paint without using alcohol in it.
Now in today's video i'm going to be experimenting with four non-alcoholic alternatives to see
whether they're great substitutes when it comes to making an edible gold paint and specifically
for when painting on buttercream. Now do keep in mind today's video is specifically looking
at painting on buttercream and not fondant and the reason why I say that is because all of the
trials that i'm going to do are on buttercream not fondant and you know fondant does act differently
when being painted on then buttercream so you know some of these might work for fondant but I
just can't say for sure so just keep that in mind. Also if you're new to my channel please click the
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Now when it comes to a non-alcoholic alternative to making an edible gold paint using lustre dust
there are many different options out there that people suggest and after doing a lot
of research I came up with what I consider to be the top four based on people's different reviews
now those four which i have chosen are water, lemon juice, vegetable oil, and vanilla essence
Now when it comes to the water, lemon juice, and vanilla essence they seem like pretty tangible
options with you know not too much difference in terms of their consistency but the one that
is kind of you know more of an out there option and I do have you know a few doubts about is the
vegetable oil. Now the reason why I still wanted to try out the vegetable oil is apparently it has
really beautiful results so you know apparently it comes out really smooth and you get a really
nice shine from it so what i'm going to do next is i'm going to go ahead and start making the
gold paint out of these four different liquids and to do that i'm using a GoBake pearl lustre dust
now while i'm mixing the you know luster dust with the liquid together
the key thing that i'm looking for is a nice consistency so the consistency
should be like a thin paste so it shouldn't be too thin that you know it's really watery but it
shouldn't be too thick either that you know it's like this thick paste that you're not able to you
know smoothly paint with so yeah now i'm just going to go ahead and make my four gold paints
so i've just mixed the gold dust with some water now this consistency here at the moment
is quite liquidy so i'm going to go ahead and add a bit more of the gold lustre dust
and this one is the lemon juice
so this one's actually gotten too thick because i've added too much luster dust to it
so i'm just going to add a little bit more lemon juice
this is the vegetable oil
so so far out of the water lemon juice and this oil that i'm now doing the oil definitely feels
really nice and smooth so i can understand why people would want to use vegetable oil
when using you know luster dust to make a gold paint and last up is our vanilla essence
So I've finished mixing my four different gold paints now
some of them did need a little bit more liquid so I just topped it up as I was mixing them
and now the last thing to do is simply test them out and see how they come out so what I've got
here is some American buttercream which i have put on some parchment paper and I've let that firm up
in the fridge so just make sure that whenever you're using any kind of edible gold paint that
your buttercream or whatever you're using um you know as your icing is nice and firm otherwise
the icing is just going to stick to your paint brush and it's not going to come out very nice
so what i'm going to do is i'm just going to start off with the water and then i'm going to
work my way all the way to the vanilla essence and then we're going to see how they come out
so the luster dust with the water has come out really nice and it's given a really nice
coverage as well so you know you're not kind of getting parts of the buttercream
showing through which is really cool now next up is the lemon juice
so the lemon juice has come out really similar to the water and
it's given a really beautiful coverage as well and next is our vegetable oil
so the vegetable oil has come out really nice and smooth and it's definitely um
you know a lot smoother to paint with which is nice and last up is our vanilla essence
okay and the vanilla essence has appeared to come out really nice as well it's given a really
beautiful coverage now if i take a closer look at all of them in terms of color they all seem to be
you know almost identical i'd say the lemon juice has got a slightly darker shade of gold, but apart
from that they're almost identical so in terms of coverage and color they've all done really
well. Now the only visual difference that I can see from all four of them is with the vegetable
oil so it seems like the vegetable oil has come off you know a bit smoother than the other three
so the vegetable oil seems to have you know kind of covered up the little holes in my buttercream
whereas the vanilla essence lemon juice and water appear to kind of
not have covered up those holes entirely but if you do smooth out your buttercream properly
then you shouldn't have holes in it like that but it is still interesting though that um you
know it still appears that the vegetable oil did cover up those little holes in my buttercream
now what i'm going to do next is i'm just going to let these sit for about half an hour or so just to
give them some time to dry out and then we're going to come back and see whether there's any
kind of changes in the color or anything like that
So our gold paint has been sitting for about half
an hour and they still look really really good so all of them still have really good coverage
now the only thing I would say is that the vanilla essence appears to not have dried as well as the
others so the others have still this really nice metallic shine coming through but they
don't look wet whereas the vanilla essence kind of has this um wet shine to it and you know if i
maybe just give it a little touch yeah so as you can see it's still very wet it hasn't dried very
well that's maybe the only downfall when it comes to the vanilla essence. Now the other three like I
said they um seem to have dried really well they're not going to be dry kind of to the
touch in the sense that you know it's not going to kind of just stick to the buttercream but dry
in the sense that you know it doesn't look wet and it doesn't seem like it's gonna go anywhere
the lemon juice I feel still has probably the deepest color to it although the lemon juice and
the water are quite similar but i would recommend you know all these three as potential you know
non-alcoholic alternatives to using with um you know luster dust when making a gold paint so yeah
that's basically my little experiment for today. I hope you guys learned something valuable from it
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