I am making a cake for my daughter's baptism this weekend. The cake will be iced in white buttercream but I would like to add a few fondant accents to it. Since I haven't worked with fondant before I was going to just buy some. (I'm not worried about taste since I'm not using a lot.) My question is this - How do I color the fondant? Can I "paint" it? I thought I had read that you can mix vodka and gel coloring. Would this be easier than mixing coloring into the fondant? Thanks for the help!
If you add colouring to the fondant it will be a less dense colour - you can darken it slowly by adding more colouring. Downside, all pieces will be the same colour, Upside it's all a uniform colour.
You can paint it - best to wait until it has dried a bit after you have cut/designed your fondant shape... I find it best if you wait anyways. When you paint you can mix the gel colours & vodka (or dipping solution from the cake dec. shops - which is basically an alcohol base). The colour will be alot stronger, depending on how much colour/vodka mix you make. Down side to doing it this way is you may need to repeat coats if it starts to appear "streaked"... upside, you can do lots of intricate paintwork.
It depends on what effect you are after...
Hope this helps
-- Fi
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