All that Glitters
Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 2:39PM 
Time for a little bling! Make your cupcakes glitter and shimmer with these products available from cake decorating stores.
1. Blue fine sanding sugar: Sanding sugar is available in coarse or fine in a wide range of colours. 2. Lustre dust: Available in metallics, lustre dust can be dusted on dry or mixed with a little vodka for a metallic paint. 3. Cachous: Assorted sizes and colours of metallic cachous, try mixing different sizes on the same cake. 4. Pure edible Silver Leaf 23 carat: Pure silver leaf available in sheets. Apply with a fine dry brush to lift pieces from the sheets. 5. Pure edible Gold Leaf 23 carat: Available in leaves, pieces and shaker containers.6. Edible glitter: Wide range of colours, use as whole flakes or push through a fine sieve to make the whole cupcake shimmery.