Welcome to the Cake Decorators Q&A

just saw one advertised on cake stuff.Excuse my ignorance but what do you use this for and how ??
thank you
Liz

Hi Liz

Back in the day we would use steam from a kettle to set the petal dust colours on sugarpaste flowers. A quick steam would ensure that the colour remained fast and deepend to appear more life like.
Now we have cake steamers which have a variety of uses such as putting a sheen/gloss on iced cakes, removing powder sugar or cornflour marks and fingerprints. I should think they are also used for curling wafer paper. I still use a kettle, some people use a portable clothes steamer. I must admit it’s tempting to have a steamer for making the all over steaming much easier. If you google cake steamer you’ll see several videos on how to use one.

Hope this helps. x

thank you very much made it with love
for your as always, great help
lots of love
Liz x

You’re welcome Liz. I see Cake Stuff has it on at a really good price, better than it was at the cake international! It’s my birthday next week so I may hint for one from my son, although I don’t really need it. If you do lots of cakes it’s a good time to grab one now. xx