Cake decorating

Making gold and silver icing is tricky, because if you mix edible luster dust into buttercream the shiny particles can’t reflect light back, and that’s what makes it shine. You have to use something clear to suspend the particles, so I decided to try piping gel (corn syrup would also work.) You also have to

I’ve been testing food coloring recently, and there are a few brands of natural food coloring that I’ve run across for cake decorating and buttercream icing. Most of them are pretty light, but Supernatural natural food coloring gives you good colors for your cake or cupcake frosting, and would work well for royal icing on

Natural food coloring doesn’t usually give you a really deep color, especially for red. If you’re making a Christmas cake, you’ll need red and green to pipe on buttercream icing decorations, and using artificial food dyes might seem like the only way. I tested this set of Supernatural natural food coloring to see if it

If you need to learn how to make royal blue icing, one cake decorating tip that you can use is to use powdered food coloring to get the dark color base. Watch how I get to the color that I’m going for using both powder and gel food coloring to avoid diluting the buttercream texture.

Making baby blue icing is basically taking a blue color and toning it down a little to not be as bright. In this article I used blue and red to make baby blue, and I think it worked pretty well. What color of baby blue do you want? Baby blue is a color that has

Making green icing blue is tricky and takes a lot of food coloring. This buttercream frosting tutorial shows how I did it (kind of) and gives you the easiest alternatives for cake decorating with a blue/green food color palette. Can you mix colors to get primary colors? You can’t really mix colors to get a

In this sage green icing color mixing demo I make sage green buttercream frosting with only basic colors. If you don’t have green food coloring, you can still achieve sage green with primary colors, and you’ll learn how to make sage green color icing with basic food coloring here. This is a basic sage green,

In this green icing color mixing demo I make green buttercream frosting with only yellow and blue, which are the two primary colors that make green. If you don’t have green food coloring, you can still achieve green with primary colors, and you’ll learn how to make green color icing with basic food coloring here.

Making burnt orange icing is easy if you use basic primary food coloring, but you need to do it carefully because red is such a strong color. If you follow these steps you’ll be able to make burnt orange frosting with basic food coloring and not end up with something that’s too dark. Which burnt