Can You Paint Fondant With Food Coloring?
Decorating By LittleLinda Updated 21 Jul 2006 , 12:50pm by LittleLinda
I have to do a cake for a scrapbooking party. The customer gave me a picture of what she wants. It has cut-out letters "crop till ya drop" and cut-out polka dots, flowers, etc. I was thinking of actually cutting the letters and whatnots out of fondant and laying them on the cake so it looks like it's actually a cropped page. But each letter is a different color with a tiny pattern in it. I was wondering if rather than coloring the fondant all those colors, if I could cut everything out of white fondant and use a paintbrush to apply the gel food colors directly onto the fondant. Has anyone done this?
yes, can paint..
but gel colors straight from bottle very dark/intense and slow to dry.
better to mix w/ a little alcohol to thin and make dry faster.
for more water color effect, use reg. liquid food color.
Wilton makes a product esp. for painting/stamping on fondant but just easy to dilute gel w/ alcohol.
but gel colors straight from bottle very dark/intense and slow to dry.
better to mix w/ a little alcohol to thin and make dry faster.
Doug, I do want to achieve a more pastel color, so why alcohol and not water?
I've painted with the Wilton colors several times..check out my gallery..the starry night cake was done entirely with Wilton colors over white MMF. This is what Doug means by intense colors. You could also try painting with luster dust, too.
Good luck!
Cindy
cindww: Wow! That starry night IS intense color.
Thanks for answering the question of why alcohol and not water ... now one more question:
Being the mother of three ages 17 to 20, I have no alcohol in the house. I see some of my extracts are 80% alcohol ... would they change the flavor too much? Or would they change the color? Any experience with this? (Or should I get a nip of vodka or rum?)
well...
(send the kids to ...camp? overnight at friends? 
)
yes, extracts will work...most commonly used is lemon.
do you have a liquore store that sells the little one serving size bottles (like you get on the airlines)? that will be plenty. One might be enough to do the cake, may need two depending upon # of colors, etc. (and no "happy" any bodies!)
vodka is preferred if using alcohol
Doug, you are so funny! I'll experiment a little with extracts, then if I give up, I'll look for a tiny bottle of vodka. Thanks for the advice that vodka is the best one to use.
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