Baking Essentials
Barco Food Glue
Characteristics:
Clear liquid
Food Grade
Used to:
Used to glue decorations onto cakes
Fix broken sugar decorations
Glue flower petals
Glue decorations onto cakes
Glue Flitter to removable decorations etc
Attach Lace points to sugar art
Attach ribbon to the cake board
Apply with a paintbrush or with a dripper directly. Hold two pieces to be glued together till secured and dry.
Barco Quick Paint
Characteristics:
Clear liquid
Flammable
Used to:
Barco QUICK PAINT is used to mix powder or gel colours into and then to paint onto sugarcraft items. It allows for smooth application of colour to fondant, sugar paste etc because it dries quickly before the sugar becomes tacky.
How to:
Mix with any BARCO powder or Gel and paint onto sugar articles. It can also be used to mix powders and gels into and then used to Airbrush with.
Barco CMC
Characteristics:
Cream-coloured powder Food Grade
Dry humidity areas use less CMC and High humidity areas use more CMC.
Knead it in very well through your fondant.
Used to:
Improve Elasticity in fondant Freeze and thaw stability
Stabilizes cream and helps it hold its shape for up to 3 days.
Prevents the oxidization of colours
Makes sugar art dry/set quicker.
If you are using a pre-made Gum paste you don’t need to add any Gums to your paste because it already has some form of Gum in it.
How to:
To create gum pastes with fondant just add 1 – 3 tsp of CMC powder to a half a kilogram of fondant. Work it through thoroughly and add more CMC or water to achieve the desired texture.
Barco Paint Cleaner
Barco Paint Cleaner is a clear strong smelling liquid used to clean Barco Paint Base or Food Paint from your brushes and Spray Gun.
Directions: Paint Cleaner is used to clean paint brushes, spray guns and tools after painting and or spraying with BARCO FOOD PAINT and BARCO PAINT BASE
Barco Paint Base
Characteristics:
Amber liquid
Food Grade
Flammable
Used to:
Mix with any BARCO powder and paint onto areas that need colour to be fixed permanently i.e. Easter Bunny Eyes, buttons etc also on any other Sugar art articles and Chocolate.
