Velvet and food spray

Velvet spray for cakes and pastries

Create a pretty flocking effect on your cakes, desserts and macaroons using our range of colored velvet sprays . These edible paint sprays allow you to cover your pastries with a thin layer for an excellent finish. You can also achieve a similar effect with airbrush dye.

Velvet sprays are widely used when making a Christmas log or a frozen 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 edible velvet sprays:

The velvet effect spray

Velvet spray is a spray dye widely used by pastry chefs and cake designers for decorating cakes. The preferred flocking for spraying desserts is the one with the 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 surface color to your pastries.

It must be used on frozen desserts, when you spray velor 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 the velor spray .

How to use velvet spray?

To use velvet spray, it’s simple:

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

- Shake the coloring bomb to mix the color and textures well.

- You must stand approximately 20/30 cm from your dessert and spray the spray in thin layers, you must try to be as regular as possible so as not to form small clumps.

- Leave for about an hour after spraying, until the color and texture are well revealed. You can taste!

If you plan to enjoy 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, be sure to remove all the material from the nozzle for optimal preservation.

The polishing, shiny and pearly spray

There are other velvet sprays that go beyond classic colors. Our flagship food coloring bomb is the gold spray. It is particularly appreciated for making macaroons golden. But you will also find it in silver and copper colors.

We also offer silver, rose gold or even gold glitter powder sprays . Finally, we have glossy and pearly food sprays to add shine to your cakes, as PME food varnish does so well.

Other food sprays

There is more than just velvet or polish spray in the world of baking, some have other functions than 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, edible varnish or quite simply to add color to the cake !

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The non-stick spray for food release

A spray is not just for coloring a cake. In addition to being a coloring, it can be a food fat bomb. Simply apply it to the bottom and edges of a cake pan. This makes the dish non-stick and makes it easier to unmold your pastry.

Cooling spray for chocolate

The food spray is also used to make homemade chocolate. When working with chocolate, the food cold spray is necessary to fix the decorations and sculptures. Being a cooling spray, it is ideal for quickly cooling and sticking together chocolate or even isomalt sugar pieces.

Chocolate makers all have a bottle of food cooling spray in their cupboards.

Your questions about velvet spray

We answer your questions about food spray , you need some precautions before using it so follow the guide before buying yours.

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

No, the food velor spray is reserved for pastry and cake design professionals. For what ? The European regulation of May 2, 2017 prohibits the sale of food sprays containing propellant gases such as butane because of their ease of catching fire.

So contact a pastry professional if you absolutely want your cake to be made with velvet spray.

Does the spray have a taste?

None, velvet sprays generally have no flavors so as not to distort the taste of your cake. In fact, they have a purely aesthetic use for the most part. Their fat and coloring composition has something to do with it 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 provide 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 not to do with food sprays is to heat them! These spray bottles contain flammable gases and may explode if you put them near a heat source.

the second is to spray it everywhere and in any way, the cocoa contained in the velvet spray or the dyes in the polishing sprays are very tenacious and difficult to clean.

Also be careful where you keep them. Food sprays are contained in pressure cans, if you keep it in the sun, or forget it in a car, the pressure can build up and cause your food spray to explode.

Where should you store the velvet spray?

So the logical question that comes to mind is where should I store my velvet spray? The best thing is to keep it in a dry place away from heat, such as a cupboard for example, ideally high up to prevent children from being tempted to use it. The most important thing for its conservation is to keep it out of the sun or a heat source.