What is color flow and can someone show me a picture of a cake done with it? I am looking at the instructions on Wilton.com. Is it an easy process?
I don't know where the color flow instructions are on the Wilton site, so can't advise about those, but the actual process of making color flow designs is fairly simple. You need a thicker consistency to do the outlining, and a thinner consistency to do the flooding to fill in.
If you can get your hands on a copy of the Course II book, there are pictures that I think make it easier to understand.
For examples of cakes done with color flow, you can check out many examples in the cake class category in the galleries - the final cakes for course II are the ones with the color flow birds, fences, and butterflies, generally.
hth!
Laura.
There are pretty straightforward instructions inside the can too. If you buy a can of Witlon Colorflow that is. Not much to it. I will say that it's very delicate, so if you are wanting to make something for a cake, you may want to make several backups.
Also, wanted to mention that colorflow isn't something you cover a cake with, but rather something you make little decorations with. I made my "3" for my Dale Earnhardt cake out of colorflow (see my site). If you look at the pictures you'll see that the 3 on top is covered in buttercream, this is because it cracked in 5 places, even on my backups, so I just covered it up. The 3's on the sides came out great. You'll not want to try to make anything very large, at least I wouldn't recommend it.
Be careful once your color flow is dry to follow Wilton's instructions for removing it from the wax paper. Go really slow! That's my best advice in this area. I tried it my own way and lost a few, but if you let the pieces slide onto another surface (flat) as you're peeling away the paper, you'll have better success.
I do love working with this stuff though. It's pretty cool and I recommend giving it a shot. It's all about getting the consistency right and committing to a little practice. Good luck!
Just bumping this up. I tried my first colorflow last night and I'm really disappointed with it. I was practicing a pattern of Dora and Boots for my daughter's birthday, so I had a lot of little details and a lot of colors.
Can anyone tell me what consistency the thick and thin should be (i.e. like toothpaste, elmer's glue??). My initial batch seemed okay but seemed awfully thick, but I didn't alter it. Plus it seems like you really have to work fast and with more than 4 or 5 colors, it dried really fast.
At this point, I'm thinking of switching over to a chocolate transfer, but I'd still like to learn this process.
Can anyone help?? 
How much do you thin royal to use like color flow. CF is more expensive to make than royal I think?
I'm not sure what the difference is between CF and Royal. I'd like to know myself. But since I had meringue powder I just did a royal icing train and it came out pretty cute. You also have to be really, really careful removing these from wax paper. My biggest tip is give them plenty of time to dry! A couple of days would be good! And yes, use a very thin knife and go slowly separating the image from the wax paper. Once you do get them off the wax paper you probably need to flip them to let the backside dry really good.
I must have thinned my royal too much to fill in because I noticed that in places it covered up some of the black outline.
But for outlining, yeah, you need about toothpaste consistency. After I'd beat my royal as directed I ended up still thinning just a TAD to outline, just a FYI.
You have to keep royal icing covered so it doesn't crust up on you. So I mix my colors as I go along (not all at one time); keep a damp rag on the big batch of white; and store the unused decorator bags in a ziploc bag.
I know you asked about CF but I expect it's pretty much the same process. Someone let me know if I am wrong!
I too was curious about the difference between Color Flow and Royal Icing and I think the main difference is that with Royal Icing you use Meringue Powder and Merigue Powder has cream of tartar and a couple of other things in it where Color Flow does not. The one common thing they both have is egg whites. I used alot of CF this weekend getting ready for my lamb cake for Easter so I made some fences and butterflies to go around the lamb. HTH!
I know one of the differances between CF and royal icing is that royal icing in more delicate and can break easier. Also, CF dries with a shine to it where royal does not. A good tip for getting CF off the wax paper is to put a thin layer of crisco on it before you pour your CF. Also, you know if the consistency is right for flowing in when you let the CF drop from a knife into the bowl and it takes 10 seconds to completely dissapear. Hope this helps!
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