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If you want to make your cakes gold you have different options and I'm going to
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walk you through three ways in this tutorial. What all of these cakes have in common is that it's really important to get
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your frosting as smooth as you can before you start because the gold will form just a thin layer over whatever shape you create for
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your cake. Chill the cake for at least two hours in the fridge before you use any of these techniques so that the frosting gets
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firm. Gold powder is my favourite way to achieve gold cakes. This is prism powder by Fancy Sprinkles
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and you can use gold luster dust too. Use a powder brush for the quickest and
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gentlest application and brush the cake all over to cover it in gold. The frosting really needs to be firm
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before you do this so that the gold sits on top instead of mixing into sticky frosting. You can use a small paintbrush but it
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will take much longer and compared to a wide soft powder brush
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a smaller and stiffer paintbrush will be more likely to indent the frosting as
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you brush. You will get gold powder all over your cake board and I'll show you at the end of this tutorial how to transfer these
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cakes from their boards onto a cake stand or platter. My discount code for this gold prism powder is in the video description
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The next way to make a cake gold is by making glitter. Mix sugar with gold luster dust or prism powder and the more gold you use the
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more metallic and bold the gold will be. Slide an offset spatula
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underneath your cake to separate it from the cake board and if it's cold you'll be able to pick it up without damaging the frosting
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I'm using cupcake cakes for these examples and I have an online class on
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everything you need to know to assemble and frost and decorate gorgeous mini cakes and you can click up here to take the class
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Roll your cake in the bowl of gold sugar glitter, holding onto the top
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and bottom of the cake and sort of spinning it between your fingers to roll it back and forth and totally coat the sides of the cake in
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gold sugar. If your cake is bigger than a bowl you can use a baking tray for this
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instead. For the top of the cake you can flip the cake upside down or use a spoon or your fingers to press the gold glitter
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against the top of the cake. I'll show you the final step for this cake in a moment. The third way to make a cake gold is the
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most gold and that's by using gold leaf, which you can buy on Amazon. Just make
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sure it's edible gold leaf because you can buy non-edible versions for other crafts. Gold leaf is very delicate and it will
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attach to any moisture so don't touch it with your fingers. Use the backing paper it comes in to press the gold leaf against the frosting
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and it will stick easily. Just peel one side of the paper back
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tilt the gold leaf so it's facing the cake and then push gently through the
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paper. This will only work if your cake has been chilled and the frosting is firm. For frosting that doesn't get firm when
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it's cold, like whipped cream, you can apply gold leaf with a paintbrush to create gold accents rather than complete coverage. If you're
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For buttercream cakes, as you apply sheet after sheet of gold leaf
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you'll cover the whole cake with gold and where the sheets overlap, the join will disappear since the gold leaf is so thin
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so you'll end up with a seamless, totally gold cake. To transfer your gold cakes, or any cakes, from their cake boards onto a cake stand
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or a platter, after chilling the cakes, spread or pipe a dot of buttercream wherever you want to place a cake
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Slide an offset spatula under the cake to loosen it from the cake board and then lower it down onto the buttercream dot
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which will act like glue to secure the cake in place. If the cakes have been chilled for at least two hours in the fridge you'll be
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able to lift them with your hands and adjust them on the platter because the frosting will be so firm. I teach an online course on cake
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