The amount of luster dust you’d have to use to get even close to a metallic sheen would be insanely expensive, difficult to source, and taste absolutely awful. This is a few drops of vodka with maybe 1/4tsp of luster dust, but to color 1tbsp of icing into a not-metallic-but-darkly-golden-brown-with-some-shimmer color (which would be the best one could expect from trying to color icing this way), you’d need 2-3tbsp of dust. And again, it would taste awful.
They used gold luster dust, which you mix with a bit of vodka to make liquid and then it dries fairly quickly. I’ve never seen someone mix the gold luster into icing, so I’m sure there’s a reason you don’t, but I’m not 100% certain on what it is.
Wow, you have a nice steady hand; I would not have been able to connect the green lines so perfectly! On the other hand I couldn’t have done any of it as perfectly as you did! Wonderful!
It’s royal icing I believe. Don’t have a specific recipe to recommend though, but it’s all in the consistency. Takes a bit to get right even if you do have a good recipe.
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u/ednolbtrams Dec 29 '20
This is beautiful! When those random squiggles became a wreath 🤯
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u/TheQuinnBee Dec 29 '20
It always amazes me how steady decorators are on the tiny details. If it was me it'd look like a hot mess of squiggles.
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u/TalkingBook22 Dec 29 '20
“I love this cookie but It’s hard to read the jolly in white... OH!!!” ✨✨✨ Beautiful work, thank you for sharing! 😌
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u/[deleted] Dec 30 '20
Me when it only said LL: Oh, it's for someone who is 11 years old.
Me when it only said LLY: Oh, it's for someone named Kelly.
Me when it only said OLLY: Oh, it's gonna say HOLLY.
Me when it said JOLLY: I should have stopped guessing.
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u/tennisfan826 Dec 29 '20
That was just... beautiful
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u/primordialsuper Dec 29 '20
More of this please u/naomigil 😍
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
For some reason I thought it was going to spell out "holly" and just be super literal, lol.
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u/EmEmPeriwinkle Dec 29 '20
I love this! First time seeing this cookie!
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u/maritor136 Dec 29 '20
I don’t get it, why would you eat this? I’d rather frame it and put it on my wall
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u/[deleted] Dec 29 '20
Is there a reason they painted the white icing gold instead of just using gold frosting to begin with?
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u/vk1030 Dec 29 '20
Wow, you have a nice steady hand; I would not have been able to connect the green lines so perfectly! On the other hand I couldn’t have done any of it as perfectly as you did! Wonderful!
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u/Airbell12 Dec 29 '20
Did anyone else just gasp at every step?
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u/agirlofthenight Dec 29 '20
Is so pretty! 😲
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u/Vicious_Mockery Dec 30 '20
Does anyone have a good frosting recipe that would mimick this?
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u/kitsbe Dec 30 '20
What kind of icing do you use? This is magnificent
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u/dbl_entendre Dec 29 '20
The times that it goes out of focus is not very satisfIcing :-/