I was a little skeptical that "glow in the dark" food coloring would actually work -
but it did.
AMAZING!!
Here is a cake under UV / black light.
And here it is under regular light.
I used the ROLKEM brand of Lumo UV Fluorescent colors and I tried both the powder and liquid versions. Both the powder and liquid worked equally well, but the liquid made the fondant a little sticky due to the added moister. I will opt for the powder if I ever need to buy more.
Here are the colors mixed into Wilton white fondant. Not all of the colors glowed as brightly, but they all had some shimmer. And I did notice that if you positioned the non-glowing colors closer to the UV light, then the color got more luminous. The Astral Pink (1), the Lunar Yellow (2), and the ARC Chrome (7) glowed the most. The Voila (3) and the Pinkilicious (6) glowed the least, and the Comet Blue (5), and Stellar Green (4) had an adequate glow.
Here is the glow in the dark fondant going onto the cake. I had the UV light on as I decorated the cake to make sure I had high-intensity glow in all the right places. I used a JEM PME strip cutter to cut the long strip and tiny circle cutters for the circles. The lettering is FMM Tappits Funky Alphabet Cutter Upper and Lower Case.
So this was a very interesting cake to make. Man I love that glow...
And here is another Glow cake I made recently. These are so much fun!
