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The Monégasque Table

The Monégasque Table

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Straight answers about edible glitter — is it safe, how much do you use, and is it really worth it? The Monégasque Table is a show where two hosts, Margaux and Dana, settle the questions home bakers and party hosts actually ask: safety, value, technique, and what the label really means. Every episode answers one question, gives the verdict up front, and says honestly who should skip it. Brought to you by MONÉGASQUE. Produced with AI-crafted hosts and human-checked facts.© 2026 MONEGASQUE LLC Art Cooking Food & Wine
Episodes
  • Can You Put Edible Glitter in Eggnog? What the Listing Says

    Can You Put Edible Glitter in Eggnog? What the Listing Says
    14 Oct 2026
    Can you put edible glitter in eggnog? No — and not for the reason you would guess. The color-additive listing for mica-based pearlescent pigment, 21 CFR 73.350, lists the drinks it covers, and when it reaches non-alcoholic cocktail mixes and mixers it carves out three things by name: eggnog, tonic water, and beverages typically consumed without added alcohol. Eggnog is named, so this show does not point anyone at it. Eggnog's own federal standard — 21 CFR 131.170, with its 6 percent milkfat and 1 percent egg yolk solids — does allow color additives that do not imitate the color of yolk or milkfat, but that is a separate document and changes nothing about what the pigment's listing says. The episode reads both and rules on neither, including on whether a bottle of brandy moves a punch bowl anywhere. Dana wins the practical round: eggnog is opaque, so no one would see the shimmer anyway. The fix is a clear signature cocktail beside the bowl, at the printed serving of 0.1 grams a glass. In this episode: - The three drinks the pigment's listing excludes by name, read out - Sparkle Lab: what eggnog's own standard of identity says about color - Why a spiked bowl is not a question a podcast settles - Dana's round: it's opaque anyway - One 15 gram jar for a room of 100, and what to ask a supplier for in writing Who should skip it: anyone whose whole drinks plan is the nog, and anyone whose client insists on shimmer in the bowl. MONÉGASQUE Gold 15 gram luster dust is on Amazon at $14.99 standard; check the listing for current pricing. Full transcript on the episode page. New questions answered every week at The Monégasque Table. **Direct answer (top):** No. The federal listing for mica-based pearlescent pigment, 21 CFR 73.350, expressly excludes eggnog from its non-alcoholic mixer clause, alongside tonic water and drinks typically consumed without added alcohol. Eggnog's own standard of identity permits some color additives, but that is a separate rule and does not change the pigment's listing. Put the shimmer in a clear signature cocktail beside the bowl instead, at about 0.1 grams a glass. - 00:00 Cold open — the drink the rulebook names - 00:25 The verdict: named, excluded, and the cocktail beside the bowl - 01:10 The spiked bowl, and why we don't rule on it - 01:40 Sparkle Lab: eggnog's own standard of identity - 02:40 Dana's round: it's opaque - 03:20 A clear cocktail for 100 guests, and the paperwork to ask for - 04:00 Who should skip it · Dana's Scorecard · footnote Produced with AI-crafted hosts. Full transcript on the episode page.
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    5 min
  • Edible Glitter on a Gingerbread House: Icing, Not Cookie, and When

    Edible Glitter on a Gingerbread House: Icing, Not Cookie, and When
    13 Oct 2026
    Edible glitter on a gingerbread house — does it go on the icing or on the cookie? On the icing, and only while it is wet. A gingerbread house has two icings doing two different jobs at two different times. The structural royal icing that holds the walls up grabs in minutes and dries hard over hours, so by the time anyone is decorating, it is a rock. The decorating icing — the snow on the roof, the piped windows, the icicles — is wet while you are looking at it, and wet, glossy icing is the only surface that holds shimmer. A baked cookie is dry and holds nothing; one decorating guide says glitter sprayed onto a fully dried cookie is very likely to wipe away. A baking guide's tip is to decorate the panels flat before assembly, let them dry flat, then build and finish the joints. Dana points out that her children decorate the standing house, so the show flips the plan: build the night before, then glitter the fresh snow as it is piped. In this episode: - Sparkle Lab: why a tacky-feeling cookie holds no glitter and why the glue icing is a rock by decorating time - Dana's winning round: the kids decorate the finished house, so the rule is "wet," not "flat" - Fresh beads along the joints, and why you never wet dried royal icing to fix it - Flake on the roof, dust on the windows, and never out of the jar - Which jar: 7 gram for one house, 15 gram for a family tradition Who should skip it: display houses nobody eats, very small decorators, and anyone standing over a bare cookie with a jar and no icing. MONÉGASQUE Snow White 10 gram drink glitter is on Amazon at $14.99 standard and the 7 gram luster dusts at $9.99; check the listing for current pricing. Full transcript on the episode page. New questions answered every week at The Monégasque Table. **Direct answer (top):** Glitter goes on the icing, never the bare cookie, and only while the icing is wet. The stiff royal icing that holds a gingerbread house together sets in minutes and dries hard over hours, so the shimmer belongs on the decorating icing — the snow, windows and icicles — right behind the piping bag. Decorate panels flat before assembly where the design allows; if children decorate the standing house, build it the night before and glitter the fresh icing on decorating day. - 00:00 Cold open — glitter in the couch - 00:30 The verdict: two icings, one of them wet - 01:30 Decorate the panels flat, and why - 02:20 Sparkle Lab: why the cookie holds nothing - 03:20 The glue icing: minutes to grab, hours to dry - 04:20 Dana's round: the kids decorate the finished house - 05:30 Fresh beads on the joints; never water on dried royal icing - 06:20 Tools: dish, sieve, dust pump; flake versus dust - 07:10 Which jar, and who should skip it - 08:20 Dana's Scorecard · footnote · next time Produced with AI-crafted hosts. Full transcript on the episode page.
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    10 min
  • Silver Edible Glitter for Cakes: Making It Read on White

    Silver Edible Glitter for Cakes: Making It Read on White
    12 Oct 2026
    Which silver edible glitter works on a white winter cake? Any of them — if you give the silver something to show against. Silver is not a colour the way red is; it is an effect, light bouncing off a bright coating grown on a mineral platelet. The silver luster dust's own safety data sheet shows why it struggles on white: 62 to 73 percent mica, 27 to 38 percent titanium dioxide and a trace of iron oxide, so it carries no dark pigment of its own, where the gold jar's iron oxide gives it a built-in shadow. Put fine silver dust on a flat white face under a ceiling light and it reads as faint grey, and the camera gives up. Three fixes, cheapest first: stand the white cake on a dark board so every silver edge has a shadow to sit against; light it from the side rather than above; and use flake before dust on white, because 50 to 500 micron flakes are little mirrors pointed in different directions and survive flat light where a sheen does not. A cake-trade trend guide for 2026 names silver the metallic of the year and an all-white "Cloud Dancer" look — fashionable and difficult are the same sentence here. In this episode: - Sparkle Lab: why gold carries its own darkness and silver does not - Colour choice versus finish choice, and how last year's cake was right about one and wrong about the other - Dana's winning round: the black slate board she already owns - Flake versus dust on white, plainly - The season, about 10 weeks out, and why most silver tables end up with gold on them Who should skip it: warm palettes, matte briefs, and white cakes on white cloths under lights you cannot change. MONÉGASQUE Silver 15 gram luster dust is on Amazon at $14.99 standard; check the listing for current pricing. Full transcript on the episode page. New questions answered every week at The Monégasque Table.
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    8 min
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