Try the americolor super red, it's works great and you don't need as much to get a nice red color.
I don't exactly know what it is called but I call it "ripening"...leave your coloured icing at least over night and the colour wil become truer...
I made red royal icing recently for my Annie Oakley cake and it looked pretty pink...I used a ton of Wilton Red no taste food colouring mixed with a bit of Christmas red as I was feeling a bit desperate too but by the next day, I had very true red..
Use lots of colour though....
Oh, and you can use airbrush colour too for the water content of your RI....I did that for some black but it was very thick...had to add extra water but the colour was great.....
HTH
I am using wilton's no taste red and I tryed adding just a little bit of burgandy. I am limited. this town doesn't have allot variety, just wilton.
Americolor is not available locally for me either so I buy it right here from CC. I used only wilton until a few months ago and Americolor is much better, you use less and get a much better color.
JaneK you're right, if you let the red sit for a few hours or even overnight it darkens up very nicely, the same goes for black.
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