Best Way To Achieve A Champagne Colored Buttercream
Decorating By wendysue Updated 19 Jun 2007 , 7:06pm by wendysue
For those of you who've had a bride request this, how did you go about it? I'm going to start by using real vanilla in the buttercream to give it some color, rather than the clear stuff. Do you also had a touch of copper color? A touch of brown? Something else?
She's going to be getting a swatch to me soon to help with matching the color to her dress. 
Wendy
I would work with a small amount of frosting so you can always add white to keep it light and color it until you get the desired color and definitely compare it to a swatch. I would think a combination of yellow and brown maybe but very minimal amounts. I use swatches and just mix until it matches. I will attach an example.
I use a touch of ivory & a little bit of cocoa powder. I had a wedding last weekend(haven't added the pictures yet) but matched the table cloth GREAT!
i use butter in my bc icing then a little ivory wilton color, Be careful though it may get to dark, I also use vanilla as well,
A little trick I do when trying to keep a mixed color looking uniform is I first try to match the batches to each other as best I can but then I will put each one in a big bowl and take 1/2 from one and 1/2 from another and plop them back in the mixer together. Then put that into another bowl and repeat with the other 2 halves. It's a little bit of a pain but it ensures that you are using only 1 color icing for your entire cake. Otherwise, sometimes the difference in color is noticeable (especially on darker colors, don't ask me how I know that 
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