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...
Category: Food Coloring Mixing
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...
Testing Out Supernatural Natural Food Coloring In Red And Green
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...
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...
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...
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...