Cake decorating help please :)
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Topic: Cake decorating help please :)
Posted By: KH25
Subject: Cake decorating help please :)
Date Posted: 31 May 2010 at 1:19pm
I am going to be brave this year and attempt a "proper" cake for Ashleigh's 4th birthday. I am doing a buttercream icing and I want to colour it in pastel colours like pink, blue, green, yellow, mauve etc. What type of colouring should I get? I've heard the gel colours are the best but from everything I've seen online, they are good for more bright vibrant colours? Would I get away with just the normal food colouring at the supermarket and just use a little bit?? Thanks  ------------- Kelly, mum to DD, 19Jun06 (26wks 1lb15oz) DS1, 24Oct10 (32wks 4lb11oz) and DS2, 31Dec11 (32wks, 4lb11) http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Daizy
Date Posted: 31 May 2010 at 1:25pm
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I think if you are wanting pastel colours you should be fine. We usually just use the basic food colouring from the supermarket and they work fine.
I did use a gel when using fondant as you can't quite get an even coverage with the other stuff and I was wanting a really bright yellow/orange. ------------- 
 
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Posted By: nannyabbey
Date Posted: 31 May 2010 at 1:26pm
| The gel colours are good for variety of colours and also because they aren't liquids they won't make your icing runny/mixes in well. Normal food colouring will totally work fine but you might be limited......you prob won't find mauve!! |
Posted By: MyLilSquishy
Date Posted: 31 May 2010 at 1:44pm
| pastel colours - i would use food colouring, if u want mauve you might need to get creative and try mixing colours. good luck! |
Posted By: BriAndOlisMum
Date Posted: 31 May 2010 at 1:48pm
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I have one of those little 4 packs of food coloring from the supermarket, it has a mixing chart on the back, not sure about mauve but purple is 3 drops of red and 1 drop of blue, orchid is 5 drops of red and 1 drop of blue.
Where does the gel colouring come from? -------------  http://www.myfitnesspal.com/weight-loss-ticker">
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Posted By: ?Lolly?
Date Posted: 31 May 2010 at 2:39pm
I made this at the weekend. We used the colouring from the supermarket ;) I think you will be fine with that stuff. ------------- Captain Chaos (5) & the Trouble Monsters (2!) 
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Posted By: KH25
Date Posted: 31 May 2010 at 3:04pm
Awesome thanks guys! Cool cake Emiloly!! Just had a look at the supermarket colourings and the normal ones have the mixture to make mauve (2 drops of blue, 1 drop of rose pink). I've bought them anyway (they were only $1 something ea rather than $5 odd dollars for the gel  ) so since I've got a few weeks up my sleeve, I will have a trial run mixing some colours up and Ashleigh can decorate some cupcakes or something 
You can get the gel colouring from TM or cake decorating shops I think. ------------- Kelly, mum to DD, 19Jun06 (26wks 1lb15oz) DS1, 24Oct10 (32wks 4lb11oz) and DS2, 31Dec11 (32wks, 4lb11) http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: ?Lolly?
Date Posted: 31 May 2010 at 3:26pm
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Good idea, I have a good cup cake recipe, it's a Tamara Jane recipe from Good morning.
Purple was hard to make but I only had Red blue and yellow to work with. ------------- Captain Chaos (5) & the Trouble Monsters (2!)
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Posted By: Brenna
Date Posted: 31 May 2010 at 9:04pm
Cool She'll love decorating the cupcakes! Have fun trialling  -------------  My beautiful 2 girls...nearly 4 and 13 months
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