Concentrated gel - won't thin icing
8 x 1oz jars in fabulous shades for you to mix a myriad of different colours.
Ivory, Golden Yellow, Pink, Red, Violet, Royal Blue, Leaf Green and Black.
Begin with white icing and use concentrated icing colours, which will not affect your icing consistency. Using standard food colours can thin down your icing and affect your ability to pipe certain decorations.
Dip a toothpick into the colour, then swirl it into the icing. Add colour a little at a time until you achieve the shade you desire. Always use a new toothpick each time you add colour; you want to avoid getting icing into your jar of colour to make it last longer. Blend the icing well with a spatula.
Consider the type of icing you are using when mixing colour. Icing colours intensify or darken in buttercream icing about 1-2 hours after mixing. Royal icing requires more colour than buttercream icing to achieve the same color intensity.
Always mix enough of any one icing colour for your entire cake. For example, if you are going to decorate a cake with pink flowers and borders, colour enough icing for both. It is difficult to duplicate an exact shade of any colour, an important fact if you want to keep colour consistent on the cake.
You can easily pipe two-tone decorations just by adding a different colour inside the bag before you put in your tinted icing. This way, you can pipe flowers with natural light and dark tones or a rainbow-coloured clown suit to brighten up the party.
Produces more intense multiple colors because it is done with straight icing colour brushed into the bag. Apply one or more stripes of icing colour with a decorating brush, then fill the bag with white or pastel-colored icing. As the icing is squeezed past the colour, decorations will come out striped.
Produces two-tone and realistic pastel tones in flowers and figure piping. It is done with pastel-coloured icing, striped inside the decorating bag with a spatula. After striping, fill the bag with white icing or another shade of the same colour as the striping. Squeeze out decorations with soft contrasts.