How to Add Color to Fondant
Now I’ll show you how to color the fondant. For this cake, we’re going to use a lot of different colors. So, I’m going to show you how to add color to the fondant.
The fondant comes in white, usually like this and then you buy some food colors. Now, you don’t want to use the liquid food kinds. You want to use either a paste or gel. You can get the colors from the cake decorating department of a craft or a specialty baking store.
I have a toothpick here and you take the color and you kind of rub it in to the fondant. Then you want to knead it in until it becomes nice and solid color.
This is a copper color and it’s specified to be used for a light skin tone. We’re making a cake that has a lot of people on it and this is the color you would use for a light skin-tone people. If you want to add more browns or change the color, you can add other colors.
As you knead it and stretch it you see that it becomes a little bit stripy and you want to continue that until it becomes solid.
As you knead it, you can see that it becomes stripy like this and you just continue kneading until you have a solid color. You may actually in some cases want to have this sort of marbleized stripy look and at that point you could stop and use it.
But for the skin tone, I want it to be a solid skin tone color.
how do i get army green and cream colour for my fondant
Tonia ~ I’ve gotten Army Green by mixing green and yellow together then adding a very slight touch of red or dark pink. Mix these colors together before adding them to the fondant. For the cream color add the barest touch of brown to your whit fondant and mix until all the striped coloring is gone.
Neat lttle trick, if you want to make fondant look like hair add the colour but don’t knead it in all the way. It gives the look of highlights in hair. Also if you want the fondant to look like marble or simillar colour pattern, colour one peice of fondant to the desired colour and take another peice of white or simillar colour and twist them together, then fold a couple times. You want the colours to be as seperate as posible but in the same lump of fondant. Hope that makes sense.
How do I get gray color for my icing?
How do i get lilac, gold and purple colour. thanks
Thanks, but how do start making the fondant itself
One way I’ve learned to make fondant is by… One bag of mini marshmellows heat in micorwave untill gooy slowly add 1lb of powdered sugar while kneading you may need to add a LITTLE water here and there and some corn startch. You’ll want to put a lot of cornstartch and powdered suger one the conter so it won’t stick. There are other ways of making it but I found this to be the easyest so far. Good Luck!!!-Sara-
How can I color my fondant gold??? Thank you very much.
how do I make black icing?