I'm making a three tier wedding cake with gold decorations. I'm also new to decorating and would like feedback on how to obtain a gold colored frosting. Real gold not yellow. Any suggestions? Thanks!

No idea how to make a metallic frosting, but have you thought about using fondant, then you could just paint that with gold luster dust. Lots and lots of gold luster dust. Good luck.

Royal icing can also be painted with gold lustre dust

10 parts lemon yellow 3 parts orange 1 part red i hope this is what you are looking for

Thanks Miss Baritone, I did not know that Royal could be painted with lustre dust! Great tip!

Welcome to cakecental kembury! This link might be of some help for making gold piping:

http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-7745-gold.html