How To Color Fondant - HowToCookThat

Usually in cake decorating videos I use fondant that I have already coloured before I start recording. This has lead to lots of questions about how to colour fondant, how to colour fondant without staining your hands and especially how to color black fondant, brown fondant and bright pink fondant. So in this video I have set about to answer all of those questions and show you how to mix every colour using only five gel food colours.

Below is a chart of all the colours made using only 5 base gel colours. The base colors that I used were Black: (number 36 on the chart) I used Artisan midnight black Magenta: (number 28 on the chart) I used progel pink (this one was the best and strongest colour pink, see the video) Cyan: (number 33 on the chart) I used Artisan azure blue Yellow (number 30 on the chart): Artisan Sunshine yellow Red: (29 on the chart) I used artisan red

Feel free to experiment using other brands. Test first to see if the colour you get with 1mL (0.03 fluid ounces) added to 100g (3.53 ounces) of fondant is significantly different to that shown in the chart (28, 29,30,33, 36). If it is not the same then obviously your mixed colours will look different too.

For measuring purposes if you need to add a fraction of a drop, add one drop to a small amount of white fondant and mix it in. Then if for example you need 1/4 of a drop cut it into 4 pieces. If you are scaling it up 20 drops = 1mL (0.03 fluid ounces) = approx 1/4 teaspoon

1 per 100g (3.53 ounces) of fondant add 3 drops magenta, 2 drops yellow, 1/5 drop cyan 2 per 100g (3.53 ounces) of fondant add 1 drop red 3 per 100g (3.53 ounces) of fondant add 1/2 drop yellow 4 per 100g (3.53 ounces) of fondant add 2 drops yellow, 1/4 drop cyan 5 per 100g (3.53 ounces) of fondant add 1/2 drop cyan, 1/4 drop yellow 6 per 100g (3.53 ounces) of fondant add 1/2 drop cyan 7 per 100g (3.53 ounces) of fondant add 2 drops magenta, 1 drop cyan 8 per 100g (3.53 ounces) of fondant add 2 drops yellow, 1 drop magenta, 1/4 drop cyan 9 plain white fondant 10 per 100g (3.53 ounces) of fondant add 1/2 drop magenta 11 per 100g (3.53 ounces) of fondant add 4 drops yellow, 2 drops magenta 12 per 100g (3.53 ounces) of fondant add 4 drops yellow 13 per 100g (3.53 ounces) of fondant add 17 drops yellow, 2 drops cyan 14 per 100g (3.53 ounces) of fondant add 4 drops cyan, 2 drops yellow 15 per 100g (3.53 ounces) of fondant add 4 drops cyan 16 per 100g (3.53 ounces) of fondant add 5 drops magenta, 2 1/2 drops cyan 17 per 100g (3.53 ounces) of fondant add 2 drops magenta, 1 drop yellow, 1/4 drop black 18 per 100g (3.53 ounces) of fondant add 4 drops of black 19 per 100g (3.53 ounces) of fondant add 5 drops magenta 20 per 100g (3.53 ounces) of fondant add 13 drops yellow, 7 drops magenta 21 per 100g (3.53 ounces) of fondant add 7 drops yellow 22 per 100g (3.53 ounces) of fondant add 13 drops yellow, 7 drops cyan 23 per 100g (3.53 ounces) of fondant add 8 drop cyan, 4 drops yellow 24 per 100g (3.53 ounces) of fondant add 8 drops cyan 25 per 100g (3.53 ounces) of fondant add 10 drops magenta, 5 drops cyan 26 per 100g (3.53 ounces) of fondant add 12 drops magenta, 6 drops yellow and 1 1/2 drops black 27 per 100g (3.53 ounces) of fondant add 1/2 mL (0.07 fluid ounces) or 10 drops black 28 per 100g (3.53 ounces) of fondant add 1mL (0.03 fluid ounces) or 1/4tsp magenta 29 per 100g (3.53 ounces) of fondant add 1mL (0.03 fluid ounces) or 1/4tsp red 30 per 100g (3.53 ounces) of fondant add 1mL (0.03 fluid ounces) or 1/4tsp yellow 31 per 100g (3.53 ounces) of fondant add 10 drops cyan, 10 drops yellow 32 per 100g (3.53 ounces) of fondant add 13 drops cyan, 7 drops yellow 33 per 100g (3.53 ounces) of fondant add 1mL (0.03 fluid ounces) or 1/4tsp cyan 34 per 100g (3.53 ounces) of fondant add 13 drops magenta, 7 drops cyan 35 per 100g (3.53 ounces) of fondant add 12 drops yellow, 6 drops magenta and 1 1/2 drops cyan 36 per 100g (3.53 ounces) of fondant add 1mL (0.03 fluid ounces) or 1/4tsp black

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