Help Please! Bride Wants Burgundy Fondant How ?

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Richard Posted 28 Apr 2006 , 12:10am
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I have a bride who wants a deep reddish burgundy fondant marbled cake for he up coming wedding. I have some time so I have been trying to achieve what she wants.
Does anyone know how to achieve this? I have tried and thrown out about 5 lbs of fondant already and cannot achieve this effect. I am stumped. Is Burgundy that difficult of a color?

Any body have any advice I would appreciate it.

Kathy R

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prettycake Posted 28 Apr 2006 , 12:16am
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Anything that is in the red color shade is always very difficult to achieve.
I once colored a small pc. of Fondant in Burgundy, and that took a lot of gel.. Using the Burgundy Color gel to me is the only way...I would color half of the Fondant Burgundy and leave the other half white, then combine the two to get the marble effect. icon_smile.gif

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ASupergirl Posted 28 Apr 2006 , 12:17am
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Burgundy is a difficult color....Red and black maybe with a hint of dark navy blue??? Can you airbrush? That might save you on the nasty taste of so much coloring it is going to take....What about "petal dusting" the whole thing? There is a paste color in Burgundy in Wilton you can find at Michael's..but it looks too pink to me...HTH

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Price Posted 28 Apr 2006 , 12:20am
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Americolor has (or had) a burgundy color gel. I purchased it to color royal icing for some cookies. I would try that.

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Kimanalynn Posted 28 Apr 2006 , 12:27am
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I have read that making chocolate first actually makes a very pretty burgandy. I will see if I can find the picture of the cake; it wasn't fondant, but the icing was chocolate, and she tinted it to get burgandy.

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Kimanalynn Posted 28 Apr 2006 , 12:29am
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cande Posted 28 Apr 2006 , 12:29am
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I ordered the AmeriColor burgandy from the CC store. It works really well. YOu shouldn't have any problem using that.

Something else to try: color your fondant with cocoa first to get it a light to med brown color, then add your coloring and see if you like the color result.

Good luck!

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katleg Posted 28 Apr 2006 , 12:36am
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thecakemaker Posted 28 Apr 2006 , 12:39am
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Satin ice makes red and pink fondant. You could start with something like that.

Debbie

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IHATEFONDANT Posted 28 Apr 2006 , 1:16am
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Antonia74 did an amazing cake..she achieved a wonderful, warm burgundy color...must be in her photos...

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KrisD13 Posted 28 Apr 2006 , 2:04am
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in all the color mixing instructions I've come across, to achieve burgundy it's 5 red to 1 violet.

I used this combo for the burgundy roses on my level 3 final cake. It turned out a beautiful shade, even though you can't tell in my pictures icon_razz.gif

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Richard Posted 28 Apr 2006 , 7:32pm
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I am really liking the cake that katleg made the color is gorgous how did you do it?

Thanks for the replies I will try this and see how it goes.

Kathy R

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Richard Posted 28 Apr 2006 , 7:35pm
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Thanks to everyone for their input and help with this. I am off to test all the responses.

Kathy R

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