Painting cake with food coloring. Making edible food paint is easy and there are so many fun things you can do with it. A quick tutorial for how to make edible food paint and gold food paint. The vodka helps the food coloring dry faster due to its high alcohol content.
Cover the cake with fondant and paint a design that you want. You can use a non toxic marker or food writer. A few of my fellow food bloggers that are crazy good with cake decorating swear by it.
Its something ive been using on my baked goods more and more to make them more eye catching. A little bit of their gel coloring goes a loooooong way and the colors are fabulous. Decorating a cake can be done by using food color and painting your design on the frosting.
While liquid food colouring might seem like an obvious paint supply for this project the water in the food colouring can make the fondant soggy and detract from your cakes. They also have the color right system which apparently can match the color you previously used based on the number of drops. After youve unrolled the fondant and shaped it to your cake you can begin to decorate.
This is a guide about painting cake frosting with food coloring. How to color fondant make every color with only 5 gel. In this video chef alan tetreault of global sugar art introduces his premium line of food coloring products and will show you the basics of mixing color gels and applying an airbrush color to a.
How to hand paint a cake. The ratio can vary based on the strength of color youre after. Painting with gel food coloring is an excellent way to add color and brightness to your cake.
In general i like to mix about 1 tsp of vodka with 1 or 2 drops of gel food coloring. Fondant icing creates a smooth surface on cakes and cupcakes that you can use as a canvas to display your own designs and messages. How to use food coloring in cake decorating.
Decorating a cake with fondant is one of the best ways to get a beautiful unique and truly one of a kind look.