Use Cocoa Powder As A Brown Petal Dust?

Decorating By aezaidan Updated 27 Apr 2015 , 1:40am by LaurenK314

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aezaidan Posted 26 Apr 2015 , 7:56pm
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I'm making sunflowers for a cake and my centers are looking a bit blah. I thought that maybe doing some shading with some petal dust would look nice but I don't have any brown petal dust and if I order it online, I don't think it will come in time (unless I splurge for express shipping and I don't really want to do that.) Has anyone tried using cocoa power as a petal dust? Thoughts?

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-K8memphis Posted 26 Apr 2015 , 8:22pm
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i've used it to add an aged look test it on a small area and see if you like the effect works fine

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-K8memphis Posted 26 Apr 2015 , 8:22pm
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i've used it to add an aged look test it on a small area and see if you like the effect works fine

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LaurenK314 Posted 27 Apr 2015 , 1:40am
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I've done this before with gumpaste branches and it worked okay. It doesn't stick as well as petal dust so you need to kind of jab it in with  a paint brush, but in a pinch, it works!

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