I need to make a cake for teacher appreciation and I have great apple wrapping paper to use on the board, but it's more of a victorian red...deep burgandy, etc....any idea how to get that red easily? Add black or blue maybe?

wilton has a burgandy

Here's a link I found with a color mixing chart.

http://www.sliceofromance.com/colorchart.html

Burgundy is 5 parts rose, 1 part violet.

if you look in the back of one of the wilton books, I believe in the area where the colors are listed as "sales items, " it also has a color chart and
will tell you which red to add a touch of black to...

I have an americolor burgundy, but I recall making it I think with Christmas Red and a bit of black...I would look it up for you but I
keep all my cake things down the street at Moms house...


GL...hope that helped a lil!

Try red and brown, thats more of a burgundy..

yeah, the red and brown has worked for me....I bought the burgundy and it was no where near burgundy.....

I've also had the best luck with using the brown and red to make burgandy. The Burgandy color that wilton makes just isn't the right shade in my opinion

If you look at my pics, you'll see my final course 3 cake. I got this color starting with Wilton's burgundy. I then added a lot of black and brown to it. It took quite a bit of color though.

Americolor has the color you need.

k to get burgundy or a darkish blue red, you first start out with red and then add just a touch of green (yes ladies you heard me right, green. It is the compliment [opposite on the color wheel] of red.) Then to get the bluish tint add just a touch of royal blue to this mix and taadaaa...........you have a wonderful burgundy shade.

My 2 cents, most colors that are specialty like burgandy need added colors to achieve the correct color. Black is used most but brown comes in a close second. I have found when doing wedding colors this happens alot. When the powers that be creat colors for weddings they need to make icing colors to cordinate for us poor saps who have to achieve it to the satifaction of the bride.