real red food coloring
Red mixed with a little water will make a pink color. If you are making icing, add a drop of two of red food coloring to white icing in order to turn the icing pink.
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.....
In theory you can add a dye to color it red, but that wouldn't make it a real red wine. Real red wine is made from from another kind of grape than the white. You might as well try to turn venison into pork.
You should begin with a simple white icing. Then add two drops of yellow food coloring, and one drop of red food coloring. Mix it will. Add more yellow or red until you you get the desired coloring.
The Canadian flag is a "real red" and white. Real red is sometimes called berry red and sometimes called bright red.
Edible food colouring is used to artificially colour food. One instance is that Cochineal is a red colouring that can be added to white icing to produce red or pink icing for decorating cakes.
The colours which are required to create green are blue and yellow, so technically you cannot create green from pink as pink is created from red and white, as adding blue and yellow to red would create brown or black. However, if you add a surplus amount of blue and green to pink icing, it should eventually become green if the amounts of blue and yellow out weight the amount of red dye used.
Cooks.com give an excellent recipe for Red Velvet icing (search for frosting rather than icing). This site suggests using 3 table spoons of flour to ensure thickness.
You can make white wine out of red grapes but you can't make red wine out of white grapes
If red and white are mixed, they make pink.
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You can add red and blue food coloring to white frosting. For a more indigo-ish color, use more blue than red. For a redder, more burgundy-ish looking purple, use more red dye. What I normally like to do is use 6 drops of red and 4 drops of blue to get a purple.