how do I get the color mauve???? Please help me.... PLEASE

Witon has a mauve food color. Do you have a picture of the exact color?

Well, use mauve color. Americolor will probably work best.

Ok, according to my color chart it says: 2parts red, 2parts orange, 5parts sky blue and 2parts black. Hope that helps. good luck

I don't have immediate access to Mauve coloring ,that's why I am asking. Thank you alene. I will have to try that, do you think that using pink and adding black or brown would work? Just a thought that I had.

If you have other colors close to what I gave you, I'd try that. If not, just try with what you have...that's what I do until it comes out close to the color I'm wanting.

I looked online and is supposed to be a purplish color, can you start playing with purple and add some red or blue etc. and see if you come close?

Also, can you pipe RI ( i hardly ever use the stuff) directly onto BC with out breaking it down? Yeah I have those colors... I was just wondering.

if your BC crusts I would let it crust before applying RI

It does crust so I will give it a try... I think.....

I know I've had a problem with the dark colors bleeding into the lighter ones. What I normally do is, pipe it onto wax paper and let it dry and since I was having the bleeding problem, Rincewind told me when it dried brush the back with uncolored RI before putting on bc.....no more bleeding.

I may just use BC... now I am having trouble with navy... I just can't seem to get it dark enough.

Navy is a pain! Try search here, I've seen several threads about how to get navy color.

For the mauve color I start with Pink, and then add in less quantities Red, Orange and a little of Black
For Nav, I do the same as Edna: royal blue and black and sometimes if I don't have those colors I use Sky blue and Violet

Good Luck,
Mari

I did the royal and black but it didn't seem very dark... I will just play around with it. Thank you all.

Keep adding..It will get there!
Edna

Ok my blue is... ok but my Mauve... it looks like poop. I am seriously gonna have to do some major playing around with colors. Ughh....... I hate these colors even more now.

hope I am not too late, I was doing a cake class and I had purple and bright orange and I mixed them just to show a technique and when they "really" mixed, it was the most beautiful and perfect mauve color!! Even better than just using the mauve icing color gel !!!