and by George---IT WORKED!! How cool is that!! I'm not sure what happened this time--but my bc was soooooooo yellow. I have new vanilla, so I'm wondering if that is the culprit.
Basically, it was so yellow it was ruined as base icing. So I figured it couldn't hurt to try it. I was SO scared!!
To about 6 cups of icing, I added 1 drop of Americolor Violet---as I was mixing it, I could actually see the icing getting whiter. Very cool!!
I can't remember who passed on this tip--but THANKS to whomever did!
Lisa
That is great! I tried that tip last night too just to get my buttercream to be perfectly white and it does work!!!! Very shocking but a great tip to keep in the back of my mind now!
who'd a thunk it??? I would never have thought to add violet to get White! Man I love this site! 
I guess it works on the same principal as the old way of putting 'blueing' into white clothes to make them pretty and white. Most of you younger folks won't know what I'm talking about, but I remember those days when my mom used it. I'll have to get some of the violet. Thanks for the tip.
Anyone know if Wilton violet will work, too?
Thanks 
Very impressive tip...I'll have to remember that one.
I just found out about this too and tried the Wilton color, and it worked!!!
I don't have any liquid coloring, so all I had was the paste/gel -- added it a little at a time with a toothpick, and it was amazing!
I frosted a cake with my normal 1/2 butter 1/2 crisco recipe and then refrosted it with the doctored icing -- the difference was truly remarkable!
THank you to whomever started passing this one along! 
I guess it works on the same principal as the old way of putting 'blueing' into white clothes to make them pretty and white. Most of you younger folks won't know what I'm talking about, but I remember those days when my mom used it. I'll have to get some of the violet. Thanks for the tip.
Subaru
Im 33 and my mum used this until i was about 12 years old and we moved to Australia, i'd be suprised if they're not still selling this stuff in Uruguay. I was thinking of the same thing, and wondering if anyone would know what i was talking about if i mentioned it, and there you are saying the same thing i was thinking!!!!
Nati
not sure i understand
are you adding violet to sl off white icing to get white?
thanks
Yes. If you use butter and your icing has a yellow-cast or off white to it--it should whiten it up. The theory is that because yellow and violet are on opposite from one another on the color wheel, they cancel each other out. It worked GREAT! Just use a tiny bit, though.
Actually--I told my mom about this and she thought about the "bluing" that they used to use in laundry.
Lisa
Yeah--just be becareful. Years ago I added bluing to a load to get a dress white and it turned BLUE! ARGH! I probably did it wrong or something but the dress was already ruined with yellow staining from the dry cleaners, so I figured it couldn't get any worse.
Lisa
so if you have an all-shortening based icing and it doesn't have a yellowish tint to it, you're going to get violet when you add violet, right?
As for laundry, can you add permanent dye (violet or is it called indigo? can't remember what colors they have in it) to the water to get your yellowed cottons nice and white again? Is that similar to what you guys are talking about when you say "bluing"?
not sure i understand
are you adding violet to sl off white icing to get white?
thanks
Yes. If you use butter and your icing has a yellow-cast or off white to it--it should whiten it up. The theory is that because yellow and violet are on opposite from one another on the color wheel, they cancel each other out. It worked GREAT! Just use a tiny bit, though.
Actually--I told my mom about this and she thought about the "bluing" that they used to use in laundry.
Lisa
That is so weird.... I cannot get over this... cancels eachother out... I am an artist, I should know this! I can't want to make off color icing to try it LOL
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