[Sca-cooks] Marzipan question

[Kathleen A Roberts]

On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:10:39 -0700
  Susan Lin <susanrlin at gmail.com> wrote:
Or, I'll make my figures (usually fruit) and
>then use luster dust
> to "paint" them.  I can get the colors pretty realistic 
>that way.

The few times I have done marzipan, I used dry food color 
and mixed it with alcohol (booze, that is) and painted it 
like I was painting a picture, rather than kneading color 
in.

My latest passion is the edible silver and gold dust you 
can either reonsitute (booze again, hmmm...  a theme....) 
and paint or you can just dust with.

I put a bit (goes a long way) in a baggie with some 1 inch 
gingercookie stars and shook, and it was just beautiful. 
 Far prettier than if I had painted them gold.

Cailte
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