Hey everyone and welcome back to my channel Cakes by MK. In today's video i'm going to be sharing
with you guys a really easy and cost effective way to make your own edible glitter at home
Now buying edible glitter is not always cheap and it can be difficult to source as well depending
on where you're staying but with this method that i'm going to show you guys today it makes
it so simple and easy to make on your own you only need three simple ingredients and
i'm still amazed every time i make it because i can't believe i created these gorgeous glittery
colors only using those three ingredients so i hope after this video and after you
guys try it out you're just as amazed as i am. If you're new to my channel please click the
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So the two really simple ingredients that i'm going to be using to make the base of my edible
glitter today is water and corn flour and that is basically it and afterwards when i come to
coloring it i'm just going to add a little bit of gel color but i'll show you when we come to that
step. So all i'm going to do is i'm just going to combine my water and my corn flour into this
saucepan and i'm going to bring that to a boil and then just let it simmer for probably about
10 minutes or so until it gets nice and thick in consistency and i'll show you what it's supposed
to look like when it gets to that point. Now just before i start in terms of quantities all you
need is one tablespoon of corn flour per one cup of water and i find that one cup of water to one
tablespoon of cornflour is enough to give me a good amount of two different colors so if you
want more if you want to say create four different colors of edible glitter then simply just double
that so use two cups of water and 2 tablespoons of corn flour and that's pretty much it
and then i'm just going to use a spatula to mix it all around
and i find that a spatula works really well because as you're mixing it you'll notice
that sometimes the corn flour kind of sticks to the bottom a little bit
it's not really sticking but it's kind of just staying in that one place so a spatula helps
to really kind of mix it all around nice and evenly so that it's heating up evenly
and you also want to make sure that you're using a non-stick pan for this
so my mixture has been going for about 10 minutes now and i've turned off the heat because it looks
like it's ready. So two signs to show you that your mixture is ready is one is when you put
your spatula through the mixture the mixture isn't too liquidy so it does take a little
bit of time to kind of spread away so that kind of is a good indication that it's thick enough
and another sign is that you'll start to get dry pieces of the mixture around the edge of your pan
i'm not quite sure you can see that in the camera but there's like these little you know dry pieces
on the sides and if you get your fingers you can almost like peel them off but i'm not going to
do that at the moment because my pan is quite hot and now the next thing that i'm going to do
is i'm just going to distribute this mixture into two bowls which i'm then going to color
so now what you want to do is you want to decide which colors that you want your glitter to be so
today what i'm going to do is i'm going to make one of my colors purple and the other
i'm going to go for a goldy color so all i'm going to do is i'm just going to add a little
bit of the gel color to the two mixtures just until i reach the color that i want. So for the
purple i'm just going to go ahead and just put a drop of purple gel food color in it
and for the goldy color what i'm going to do is i'm going to add a little bit of brown and
then i'm going to add some yellow and that should help me get like a nice kind of semi-goldy color
and then the next thing that you want to do is you want to spread out these
two mixtures onto a piece of acetate sheet or ohp paper so the type of paper that you
can just find at like your local stationery shop but today i'm just using acetate sheet
now i've just got one long piece here so i'm just going to put half of my mixture
on one side and half of my mixture on the other side and i'm just going to use the
back of my spoon to help spread it all around and you want it to be quite thin
okay so i've spread out my two mixtures onto my piece of acetate sheet and all
you want to do now is you want to let this air dry until it's completely dry
now you know that it's ready once the mixture releases itself completely from the acetate sheet
so it ends up being kind of its own just kind of piece of paper which is completely separate
to the acetate sheet which i'll show you soon what that looks like
and how long this takes to dry it really depends on the climate that you're living
in or the conditions under which your you know mixture is sitting so for example for me here
in New Zealand at the moment it's really cold and so if i just left this out at you know the current
temperature it'll probably take me you know maybe two or three days for this to completely dry
but if i leave it under my air conditioner which keeps our house nice and warm then it takes about
kind of 24 to 48 hours to completely dry. Now if you live in a warmer climate it might take
you know a shorter amount of time but if you stay in a really cold place it might take a bit longer
so i would recommend putting this in a nice warm place and under an air conditioner or something if
you you know need it a little bit more quickly. You can also use a hairdryer to you know help speed
up the process a little bit but yeah that's basically it so i'm going to pop this aside
now and i've made some earlier so i'm going to show you guys what it looks like once it's ready
so what i've got here is i've got some of that corn flour mixture which i prepared earlier and
a whole bunch of different colors and it's nicely dried now so as i mentioned before the cornflour
mixture should literally come off like a piece of sheet on its own and sometimes it may kind of
stick little pieces here and there but generally it should all come off and when you feel it it's
kind of like it feels like it's going to break but it's actually quite strong so you can kind of
you know bend it and stuff and it shouldn't break. Now before i move on to the next step i do want to
quickly mention something so when i first started trialling this out i thought why can't i do this
on baking paper so i tried it on baking paper and unfortunately it just doesn't work in the same way
so the cornflour mixture doesn't quite come off as nicely and you don't have this nice shine to it so
when i refer to shine this is what i mean so that's the you know front of the cornflower
piece of paper but if i flip it over hopefully you can see that on the camera it's got this
really nice shine to it and if i show you the same thing with the white one it's kind of got a matte
look on one side but on the other side it's got this really nice shine to it and that's basically
what you want because that's what's going to give us that kind of glittery effect when we come to
turning it into glitter which i'll show you shortly. Now that doesn't happen when you do
it on baking paper and I also tried doing it on a silicon mat so these are the ones that i tried on
the silicon mat and if i just put them side by side so just to compare let's look at the white
so in this case like i showed you before the white's got this really beautiful shine to it
but if i take the white from the silicon mat as you can see it's matte on both of the sides
which is not what we want so it doesn't quite work as well on silicon mats either so i'd say stick
to the acetate sheet or the ohp paper. And then to turn these sheets of corn flour into edible
glitter, what you need to do next is you just need to grind it up in a really fine grinder
and that's what's going to give you the small little pieces of edible glitter. You can also
make glitter flakes out of this which is slightly larger and all you need to do is just grind it a
little bit less and yeah you can basically just play around with it until you get the size that
you're happy with so i'm going to start off with this goldy color so i'm just simply going to
just crinkle it together put it into my grinder and i'm simply going to grind away now you may
need to stop every now and then to give it a little mix if it's not quite you know grinding
as well and also make sure that your grinder is super dry so you don't want any moisture
otherwise it's going to cause your cornflour paper to kind of start clumping up which you don't want
so yeah just make sure it's really dry and keep checking on it every now and then until
you get the size that you're happy with
okay so i have finished grinding my gold color one and i'm going to put it into a little dish so you guys can see what it looks like
and i am left with this really beautiful sparkly gold edible glitter. Now as you take a closer look
at your edible glitter i'm sure by this point you're going to be absolutely amazed because i'm
still amazed every time i make this, you'll notice that it's got this beautiful glittery shine to it
and that's because of that shine on the back of our cornflower paper that you get when putting
on the acetate sheet so you really want to make sure that you've got that um you know glittery
shine to it otherwise you're not going to get the you know look of a real edible glitter but
yeah that's basically it so now i'm just going to do the exact same thing with the rest of my
cornflower sheets and then i'm going to show you guys all my colors side by side
now i've just finished grinding my different colors together and they look absolutely
incredible they're so beautiful and shiny i hope you guys can see just how incredible
they look through the close-up shots. Now one thing to keep in mind is when i was
grinding these i did five colors all at once and my poor little grinder i think got a
little bit overworked and towards the end it wasn't grinding as well as i wanted it to so
in some of these you know last colors that i did there are a few kind of bigger pieces
of the glitter but it's okay it still looks really pretty but just keep in mind that you know if you
want it to be really really fine then just make sure that you're giving your grinder enough
kind of time and space to grind well without overheating it so yeah apart from that that's
basically how you easily create your own beautiful glitter at home. I hope you guys enjoyed this video
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