Velvet and food spray

Velvet spray for cakes and pastries

Create a beautiful flocking effect on your cakes, desserts, and macarons with our range of colored velvet sprays . These food-safe spray paints allow you to cover your pastries with a thin layer for a great finish. You can also achieve a similar effect with airbrush coloring.

Velvet sprays are widely used when making a Christmas log or an iced dessert. This type of spray adds texture and color to your dessert in just a few sprays.

In this category we offer several types of food velvet sprays:

The velvet effect spray

Velvet spray is a spray-on food coloring widely used by pastry chefs and cake designers for decorating cakes. The preferred flocking for spraying desserts is the one with a velvet effect.

Made from colored cocoa butter, it is available in different colors: red, blue, black, green, pink, gray, yellow, white, brown, orange... It brings a beautiful chic shade to the surface of your pastries.

It should be used on frozen desserts, when you spray velvet spray on your dessert a thermal shock occurs and there is a crystallization effect of the cocoa butter and chocolate, which creates these small crystals distinctive of velvet spray.

How to use velvet spray?

To use velvet spray it's simple you need:

- Cover the surface around the spray area with the velvet spray, you don't want to end up with traces of dye on the worktop.

- Shake the can of coloring to mix the color and textures well.

- You have to stand about 20/30 cm from your dessert and spray the spray in thin layers, you have to try to be as regular as possible to avoid forming small clumps.

- Let stand for about an hour after spraying, until the color and texture have fully developed. Enjoy!

If you plan to eat it later, you can put your dessert back in the fridge or freezer.

After using your velvet spray:

Clean the nozzle of the velvet spray can either by running it under hot water or by blowing into it, making sure to remove all material from the nozzle for optimal preservation.

The shiny, pearly, glossy spray

There are other velvet sprays that are different from the classic colors. Our favorite food coloring spray is gold spray. It's particularly popular for making macarons golden. You can also find it in silver and copper colors.

We also offer silver, rose gold, and gold glitter powder sprays . Finally, we have glossy and pearlescent food sprays to add shine to your cakes, just like PME food varnish.

Other food sprays

There's more to baking than just velvet or gloss spray ; some have other uses beyond adding texture or color to your cake.

The different sprays that you will find on this page will allow you to add (depending on the type of spray) an iridescent texture to a pastry, silver, copper or even gold shine, food varnish or simply add color to the cake!

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Non-stick spray for food release

A spray isn't just for coloring a cake. In addition to being a coloring agent, it can also be used as a food grease spray. Simply apply it to the bottom and sides of a cake pan. This makes the dish non-stick, making it easier to remove your baked goods.

Chocolate Cooling Spray

Food spray is also used for making homemade chocolate. When working with chocolate, food spray is essential for setting decorations and sculptures. As a cooling spray, it's ideal for quickly cooling and bonding chocolate or even isomalt sugar pieces together.

Chocolatiers all have a bottle of food refrigerant spray in their cupboards.

Your questions about velvet spray

We answer your questions about food spray , there are some precautions to take before using it so follow the guide before buying yours.

I am an individual, can I use a food spray?

No, velour food spray is reserved for pastry and cake design professionals . Why? The European regulation of May 2, 2017 prohibits the sale of food spray containing propellant gases such as butane because they are prone to fire.

So, turn to a pastry professional if you absolutely want your cake made with velvet spray, or use one of the alternatives available in our velvet spray category.

Does the spray can have a taste?

None, velvet sprays are generally tasteless so as not to alter the flavor of your cake. In fact, most of them are purely aesthetic. Their fat and coloring composition contributes to this, since this mixture of ingredients has no taste.

Is the food spray textured?

Some are , they are mainly used when making Christmas logs or Valentine's Day cakes, they are called velvet effect sprays, since they give a grainy effect to your pastry. Others only bring a thin layer of color, shine or even a glossy effect. It's up to you to choose the spray and the effect you want to give to your pastry!

Things not to do with velvet sprays

The first thing you shouldn't do with food spray is heat it! These spray bottles contain flammable gases and can explode if you place them near a heat source.

The second is to spray it everywhere and anyhow, the cocoa contained in the velvet spray or the colorants in the polishing sprays are very stubborn and difficult to clean.

Also, be careful where you store them. Food sprays come in pressurized cans; if you store them in the sun or leave them in a car, the pressure can build up and cause your food spray to explode.

Where should I store the velvet spray?

So the logical question that comes to mind is where should I store my velvet spray? It's best to keep it in a dry, heat-protected place, such as a cupboard, ideally up high to prevent children from being tempted to use it. The most important thing to keep it safe is to keep it away from sunlight or a heat source.