How to mix food color

Food Colors

Food color is available at cake decorating supply outlets. The best types are paste and liquid paste, which can be combined to create lovely pastels as well as rich, deep shades of color.

Deep colors require large amounts of paste, but black and dark brown can be achieved by adding paste to chocolate icing.
Below is a chart of custom colors that can be made by combining the colors listed.

How to mix food color

When mixing food color with icing, separate a small portion of icing and blend thoroughly with color; then combine it with the remaining icing. When more than one food color is used, blend one color at a time with a small portion of the icing and then combine with the remaining icing.

 

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