Ingredients, Allergy, Storage & How-To-Use Advice

INGREDIENTS & ALLERGY ADVICE

Each decoration is handmade from edible material and individually coloured with food-safe colours.

Colours

Colours used in the range may include the colours E102, E104, E110, E122 & E129 - which may have an adverse effect on activity and attention in some children.

The food-safe airbrush colours used contain ethanol and the thickener hydroxypropyl cellulose E463.

Occasionally, non-toxic, food-touch dusts my be used through the airbrush to create special finishes. Although perfectly harmless if some of the dust is eaten from the surface of the cake, items sprayed with these dusts are not designed to be consumed & should be removed from the cake before it is eaten. If used, appropriate advice will be included in the relevant product description.

Moulded Decorations (not indivdually-sculptured 3D decorations)

The modelling paste for the moulded decorations is made from sugarpaste and gum tragacanth or gum tylose.

Sugarpaste Ingredients: Sugar (78%), Glucose Syrup, Palm Kernel Oil, Water, Starch (Potato) Glycerin, Carboxymethyl Cellulose, Polysorbate 80, Potassiuim Sorbate. Flavouring: Vanilla Oil, Citric Acid.

Diet and Allergens: These toppers are suitable for vegetarians and vegans. They are allergen free, although they are produced on premises where nut products are handled, so there is a risk of nut traces being present.

3D Decorations (including all leaves)

The 3D decorations are handmade from fine, professional-quality edible flower paste.

Ingredients: Sugar; Glucose; Water; Maize Starch; Emulsifier: Cellulose Gum; Preservative: Acetic Acid.

Diet and Allergens: These 3D toppers are suitable for vegetarians & vegans but may contain traces of milk, egg & nuts.

STORAGE ADVICE

The decorations should be stored in cool, dry conditions out of direct sunlight in a cardboard box. It is recommended for longer-term storage that the items are removed from any plastic packing materials & placed on a piece of kitchen roll inside a cardboard (not plastic) box to mininise the risk of any damage caused by condensation build-up. Do not put in a fridge or freezer!

There is a suggested 'best before end' date of 6 months from date of purchase for all my items., although in practice they do not really deteriorate provided they are kept in the right conditions - they just go harder & more brittle over time.

USING THE DECORATIONS

It is recommended that non-wired items are attached to the surface of a sugarpasted cake with a small amount of royal icing - ideally coloured to the same shade as your cake base - which sets firm. Please do not confuse this with buttercream icing which does not set hard in the same way.

Wired items should never be inserted directly into your cake. They should be held in a sugarcraft posy pick which is inserted into the cake to hold the wired items or alternatively dipped in the product called Safety Seal (Ingenious Edibles) which provides a food-safe seal around the wire before insertion.

FOOD SAFETY

Purple Butterfly Cake Designs is registered with UK Environmental Health under current UK Food Safety legislation and the premises carry a 5 star hygiene rating. All items are produced, stored, handled and labelled according to the necessary professional standards.