Fast Help Needed! Barney Purple?
Decorating By mistygaildunn Updated 28 Jan 2006 , 11:49pm by toddsgirl
I am thinking a little bit of wilton rose with wilton violet should get you close. Try a small amount of icing first...you do not want to mess up a whole batch if you do not like the shade.
If you do not have rose...I would just use the violet and make it really purple!
What colors do you have? I used violet and went heavy with it to get a darker purple. Boy, was that frosting bitter! Luckily, it was a bottom border so when I cut the cake for my daughter's class, I purposely scooped a little high and removed the border as I place the cake on plates.
I have violet,rose,red(no taste), christmas red, royal blue, black, and many others but no burgandy. So far I have tried mixing the above colors differently with no success. The color I'm looking for is more of a light eggplant color.
Here is a link from sugarcraft that tells how to mix the colors. It is very helpful. Print it out and keep it in a safe place.
http://www.sugarcraft.com/catalog/coloring/colormixingchart.htm
Okay...Here is another chart I found from another site:
Using ChefMaster Colors:
Apricot- 2 parts Orange + 1 part Egg Yellow
Aqua- 5 parts Sky Blue + 1 part Leaf Green
Avocado- 4 parts Lemon Yellow + 1 part Leaf Green + touch of Black
Burgundy- 5 parts Bakers Rose + 1 part Violet
Chartreuse- 2 parts Lemon Yellow + 1 part Leaf Green
Copper- 1 part Egg Yellow + 1 part Brown + 1 part Christmas Red
Coral- 3 parts Rose Pink + 2 parts Lemon Yellow
Dusty Rose - 2 parts Christmas Red & 1 part Malt Brown
Gold - 10 parts Lemon Yellow & 3 parts Orange & 1 part Christmas Red
Plum - 1 part Violet & a touch of Christmas Red
Maroon - 4 parts Red Red & 2 parts Burgundy
Ivory - 1 Liquid Whitener & a touch of Brown and Egg Yellow
Jade - 1 Leaf Green & 1 Royal Blue & a touch of Black
Lavender - 5 parts pink & 1 part Violet
Marigold - 3 parts Lemon Yellow & 1 part orange
Melon - 1 part Orange & 3 parts Bakers Rose
Moss Green - 2 parts Violet & 3 parts Lemon Yellow
Navy Blue - 1 part Sky Blue & 1 part Violet
Persimmon - 1 part Orange & 1 part Bakers Rose
Grape - 1 part Sky Blue & 6 parts Bakers Rose
Raspberry - 3 parts Bakers Rose & 1 part Christmas Red
Ruby Red - 1 part Holiday Red and a touch of Black
Rust - 8 parts orange & 2 parts Red Red & 1 part brown
Sea Gold- 2 parts Sky Blue & 1 part Leaf Green
Silver - 1 part Black and 1 part Blue
Skin tone - 12 parts orange & 4 parts Bakers Rose & 1 part Royal Blue
Teal - 9 parts Sky Blue & 1/2 part Lemon Yellow
Turquoise - 6 parts Sky Blue & 1 part Lemon Yellow
Wine - 3 parts Holiday Red & 2 parts Rose Pink
Misty Green - 2parts Leaf Green & 1 part of Royal Blue & a touch of Black
Other color mixing suggestions:
AntiqueGold - Add just an extremely small touch of Leaf Green to Lemon Yellow
Blue Lavender - Mix a small amount of Violet with white icing
Burgundy/Wine - Mix 3 small parts Blue and 1 part Red-Red. (This is very difficult color to mix)
Flesh - Red and Green in white buttercream
Gray - Add just a touch of Black to white icing
NavyBlue - Mix in a large amount of Royal Blue until a deep Blue is achieved. Add a very small amount of Black.
Peach - Mix equal parts of Lemon Yellow and Pink
Pink Lavender - Mix a small amount of Blue color with Pink colored icing.
Raspberry - Mix equal parts of Pink and Red-Red. Use enough color to get a rather deep effect.
Rust - Mix enough Orange until a bright Orange is obtained. Add Christmas Red until color is dark. Add a very small amount of Royal Blue.
WarmGold - Add just a touch of Red Red to Lemon Yellow
Using Wilton Colors:
ANTIQUE GOLD Add just an extremely small touch of Leaf Green to Golden Yellow
AQUA Sky Blue and Leaf Green
AVOCADO Use Moss Green color
BLACK Our paste color or Royal Blue, Christmas Red, Orange and Lemon
CHARTREUSE 9 parts Lemon Yellow, 1 part Leaf Green
CORAL Creamy peach and a touch of pink or orange and a touch of pink.
FLESH Add just an extremely small touch of Copper to white icing. Ivory can also be used. Light pink with a small amount of brown.
GRAY Add just a touch of Black to white icing.
HUNTER GREEN Kelly Green and a touch of Black
JADE Leaf green, Royal Blue and a touch of Black
LAVENDER Pink and Violet
MARIGOLD Lemon Yellow and Orange
MAROON Burgundy and Red Red
MAUVE Touch of Burgundy with very little Black.
MISTY GREEN Leaf Green, Royal Blue and a touch of Black
MOSS GREEN Our paste color or Violet and Lemon Yellow
MULBERRY Mix Rose with a touch of Royal Blue.
NAVY BLUE Royal Blue and Black
PERIWINKLE Royal Blue and Violet
PLUM Use violet with a touch of Christmas red.
RASPBERRY Pink and Red Red
RUST Orange, Red Red and Brown
TEAL Use teal paste color or Lemon Yellow and Sky Blue
TURQUOISE Sky Blue and Lemon Yellow
WARM GOLD Use Golden Yellow with just a touch of brown.
That is awesome. Thank you all so much. I printed both of them off, and hopefully I can get something to come through with it. If not, I'm going to Kroger to buy a cake kit.
Burgundy?
well here's how I make burgundy at work (uses bakerycraft colorgels) red, a couple drops of green (yes green it's the opposite of red on the color wheel) and a touch of royal blue. I never, ever eve add black to a color to make it darker. That's becuase black will suck light into it and anything you add black too will not be vibrant it gets all muddy. Same with making gold colored bc. I use egg yellow and violet. Lots of yellow and just a coupla drops of violet.
We have a lot of call for these colors as they are the local high school colors.
But yes, Wilton does have a "burgundy". You can get that at the local wallymart.
Amazing the things we learn here! Thanks chaptlps for the color advice.... not my thread but I need to make gold BC today. I woulda never known..I have tried b4 to add a drop of black to colors and had terrible results but it is the color most would go for to darken something!
i agree kay,
most people go for black to darken color. but all black does is "deaden" it. So eggplant purple hmmm. let's see here..... of course violet would be the base color, then I would add a smidge of yellow to take it down and depending on if you want a warm purple (yellow/red undertones) or a cool purple (blue undertones) I would add either a couple drops red to warm it or a couple drops of royal blue to cool it. Need lots and lots of basecolor though to get it dark.I think Barney is a cool eggplant color so I would add a couple drops of blue to the violet/yellow mix. Just remember though that when colors oxidise in bc they darken but do the opposite in fondant and royal icinng.
I have made Barney with a lot of the Wilton Rose color and then added just a touch of Royal Blue.
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