Edible Dusts: What to Use, How to Use them, and When

Sparkle Dust Options:

• Roxy & Rich Sparkle Dust – These come in small tubs AND pump bottles of two different sizes. For a great choice that will add bling but no extra color to your cookies, go with the classic and fantastic Super Pearl.
• Sweet Sticks Edible Glitter Pump – Far and away my favorite gold glitters. They also come in pump bottles that are both powerful and precise.
• Flash Dust—Produced by Never Forgotten Designs, these dusts are perfect for someone who needs ingredients that don’t use artificial colorants. The colors of these dusts are achieved with turmeric, beets, vegetable juices, sunflowers, etc. No Red 40 here!
• Really Edible Glitter—Also produced by Never Forgotten Designs, right here in the US.

Petal dusts can be used dry or wet, just like Luster Dusts—except that they leave a matte finish instead of a sheen.  These are perfect for use on sugar flowers, royal icing, fondant, etc. 

Fondust is a no-liquid powdered colorant that can tint your fondant any color with just a little elbow grease. Simply add a tiny bit of this dust to your fondant and massage in until the color is fully dispersed. You’ll definitely want to wear gloves for this process—unless you love to have colored hands, that is.

If you work with white chocolate or candy melts, you likely know that you can’t use liquid food coloring to tint them due to the volatile nature of the relationship between water and chocolate. Mixing these two things will cause your chocolate to seize up, making it unworkable. But along came Roxy and Rich to answer our chocolate-based prayers and introduce a fat-soluble powdered food coloring that can simply be mixed into melted chocolates. No need to search for pre-colored candy melts anymore!

And that’s it!  Whether you are looking to add some bling, paint some lustrous details, dust some flower centers, or make some pretty chocolate-covered Oreos, The Cookie Countess has what you need to make it happen!