Methods to Employ when Adding Food Coloring to Cake Icing/Frosting, Commentary 1 of 2

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(Free-Press-Release.com) March 4, 2010 -- Paste colors won't change the consistency of the icings as fluid colors will do. They are far more powerful, providing you with deeper, darker colors. Paste colors tend to be more concentrated-with a little going a long way. Paste colors come in jars. The Liquid Gel colors are rather new on the market; they really are a cross between a paste and a liquid. They can be found in squeeze bottles. These items are usually purchased at stores that sell cake and candy making supplies.

To add paste colors to your icing, the following steps should be followed:

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Methods to Employ when Adding Food Coloring to Cake Icing/Frosting, Commentary 1 of 2

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1. Scoop out small portion of icing from the jar and place it in your bowl, but keep it separated along the side of the bowl. Put a small dab of paste color on your spatula-knife.
2. Mix the paste into a small percentage of icing on the side of your bowl. Be careful never to mix it in with the main portion of icing during this step.
3. Blend the little portion thoroughly and add additional paste

4. Stir the small portion of icing into the contents of the rest of the bowl, mixing it completely so the colour is evenly blended through the entire icing. color as required to obtain the shade of coloring desired. It is better to acquire a rather deeper shade at this time for whenever you mix it into the whole contents of the bowl, it will of course develop into a lighter color.

IMPORTANT-If a new color must be added to obtain a particular shade, repeat the steps outlined in 1 to 3, before you stir the first portion into the remainder of the icing in your bowl.

While the fact that the proper use of color in cake decorating can't be overemphasized, it must also be mentioned here that the easy principles are usually easily learned. Once learned it can be applied with much success to even the most ambitious cake decorating project.

Color: Before actually going into the subject of colored icings, a quick conversation of color itself may be in order. The full study of color can, obviously, occupy a life span, but in its application to cake decorating it could be greatly simplified. To begin with, the same rules that apply to the blending of the artist's colors apply as well to food colors. When the artist desires green he mixes the proper proportions of blue and yellow, and when the picture requires violet he simply mixes red and blue. A glance at the color wheel will demonstrate how all the possible color combinations are made from the three primary colors-blue, yellow and red.

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