How To Make Basketball Orange??

Decorating By whaley_s Updated 15 Aug 2009 , 5:50am by whaley_s

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whaley_s Posted 15 Aug 2009 , 5:04am
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I swear I'm going to use up my whole bottle of orange color trying to get my small amount of icing to look like a basketball! I've used orange and some brown to try to darken it... Any tips on how to make my icing color more of a basketball orange, opposed to a peachy orange? Thanks!

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xstitcher Posted 15 Aug 2009 , 5:37am
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You might want to check out this thread about colour mixing charts. There's a few of them, you'll have to go thru the pages to find them.

http://cakecentral.com/cake-decorating-ftopict-589750-chart.html+mixing

I would try adding some red to the orange you already have. You said you already added some brown and remember that some of these darker colours will darken overnight too.

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mjk350 Posted 15 Aug 2009 , 5:42am
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I found this on Wilton. HTH
http://www.wilton.com/idea/Basketball-Cake

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whaley_s Posted 15 Aug 2009 , 5:50am
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Thank you, thank you!! I'll make sure to pick up some terra cotta next time I'm at Michaels!!

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