What Is The Difference Between Colorflow And Thinned Royal?
Decorating By NEWTODECORATING Updated 24 Apr 2007 , 4:30pm by NEWTODECORATING
I am teaching a class through the college and am preparing my class lesson plans. I was going to teach colorflow in the next session. I just pulled out my canister of colorflow and the ingredients are egg whites. Isn't that what meringue powder is? Is this another sneeky way of Wilton to sell more product? I am not going to have my students run out and buy something they already have just because it has a different label. Please tell me I am wrong and they aren't the same.
They aren't the same. Color Flow dries shinier and pillows, while royal icing dries a matte finish. Not sure what the ingredient difference is, but they don't dry the same.
Hope that helped.
Good luck with your class!
angie
Yes they both have egg whites in them but their are different ingerdients in it as well. As was said they do dry differently and according to Wilton Color Flow makes stronger pieces.
But in the end royal icing does work for the techinque. I usually tell my students that if they think they will do alot of color flow pieces to buy the mix for it. If it is something they will use here and there royal will work for it.
My problem is I don't use it often enough to keep the can of it on hand. I've had to throw a can out because it was darker than I remembered and I had had it for a while. I wish Wilton would make a smaller can of it.
Meringue powder has cream of tartar in it whereas the color flow does not. I use the flow in technique all the time with royal icing on my sugar cookies. I use royal because it tastes a whole heck of a lot better than color flow--my kids actually spit out color flow pieces.... 
Thank you everyone! I will continue as planned then. I rairly use color flow now that I have discovered choc. transfers, but I do think it is a good thing to know and will teach it now.
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