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If you are looking for a causation sort of colour, here's what to do.
I will assume you are working with the standard grocery store liquid colourants.
Start with a very light orange, 1 drop red, 1 drop yellow and mix well. This is most likely going to be way too pale, but as you can add colour but not remove it and you have not given me any idea how big a batch of icing you are working on... better safe than sorry. Next add 1 drop green (yeah, I know, sounds weird, I swear it works), mix well.
Then one drop at a time add red and if needed a bit more yellow. Mix thoroughly after each drop, remember it will dry down a bit darker so keep it pale.
For a darker skin tone use red yellow and blue in equal amounts (1 -2 drops each) to start. Mix well. Adjust by eye with red and yellow until you reach the desired colour.
Remember mix the icing very well after each drop of colour, it is time consuming, but saves you making too many mistakes.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 14y agoMix a bit of Leaf Green with Royal Blue, and just a touch of black. Always mix a small amount of color to experiment until you get just the shade you want. Once you do get just the color you want, be sure to mix enough color for your cake, since it is very difficult to duplicate an exact color.
Also, if you get the color you want, but it's just a shade or two too dark, you can lighten it with an icing whitener, starting out with small amounts until you reach the desired shade. Wilton makes an excellent icing whitener, which can be found at many grocery stores, as well as arts and craft stores, or any place that sells cake decorating supplies.
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What happens when you mix chocolate and icing sugar and cream cheese?
you get cake pops
I threw out the ingredients you need for a packet cake mix. what should you put in the icing?
If you threw the ingredients out for the packet cake mix, you don't have a cake to make. Normally, packet cake mixes don't come with mix-it-yourself icing -- but if it did, and you did throw it out, try making a basic buttercream frosting. Go to foodnetwork.com or allrecipes.com and look up one that you like.
Does a box cake mix with icing spoil after three days?
It is not clear whether the question refers to a box cake mix still in the package, or a cake made from a boxed mix, that has been frosted. In that case, the answer depends on the type of frosting. A cake prepared from a mix, frosted with buttercream type icing should be fine for three days, and longer, as long as it is kept covered and cool. It does not need refrigerated unless the room temperature is quite warm.
What do you need to make a plant cell cake?
Well u should use a regular cake mix but use multicolored icing for the organelles.
How to make a SpongeBob cake?
you just make a normal sponge cake and buy some butter icing and mix yellow food colouring in with it and spread it on the top and round the sides and buy like chocolate icing and white icing and just draw on his eyes and his square pants with the icing! hope this helps :)
How do you make a cake to get a moshling in candy cane caves?
Mix ingredients together then put icing and toppings on cupcake.
Will cake mix taste good without icing?
Yes, it will. Just add a little bit more chocolate in your cake mixture and you're good to go.
What do you need to make buttercream?
butter and icing sugar. around 150g butter and 300g icing sugar, mix them together and voila. this should be enogh to cover a 20cm round cake
What colors make lilac purple for icing?
When you mix red and blue, you get purple; for a lighter shade, you just need white, which the icing itself would probably supply. you start with white icing....... then add purple icing a little at a time...... to make purple, you mix red and blue. more red than blue though. If you use too much blue, it turns black......... now, the lilac icing will turn darker the longer it sits so you want to make it, ice the cake, then serve it right away....... It will turn the prettiest shade of dark purple the longer it sits.....
You are making a cake it is yellow in color but you need each layer be a different color you need a blue layer a red layer and a green layer What colors can you add to yellow cake mix?
Yellow cake mix already has yellow food coloring in it, which will effect any colors added. This should be no problem when adding green coloring, but the red will be tinted slightly orange. You might want to start with a white cake mix, which would give truer colors when dyed.
Which type of sugar is most suitable for cakes?
Caster sugar or icing sugar. Sugar with larger grains do not dissolve properley in the cake mix.
What colors of icing do you mix to become navy blue?
Try black and blue. May work, normally just buy the colour I need.
