This product exceeded my expectations. I'm really happy with the rich gold color I was able to obtain using this applied on fondant. It did take a couple of coats but even the first coat still had a nice opacity that would've been fine on it's own. Are use this to color a unicorn horn for a cake and it was fantastic. The gold was very bright and beautiful, it took about 3 coats to get it the way I wanted but it went on easily. I applied it dry and mixed with lemon extract or vodka and both methods worked well.