Help, I Used Koolaid Red But My Bc Is Still Pink.
Decorating By Boloantiano Updated 15 Aug 2006 , 1:18am by Boloantiano
Please help. How much koolaid do i have to add to 375 gr. of BC.
I have used like 13 tbs. and left it overnight, but it's stil pink.I need it for tomorow.
Wouldn't Kool-Aid flavor it too? 
That doesn't sound too good, in my opinion.
Just use food coloring gel or paste...
Yes Koolaid adds a real nice taste to the BC, that's not the problem. My problem is getting it real red.
I'll try adding a bit brown or black. Thanks
I put liquid red, koolaid and wilton's no taste red. I afraid to put more color, because the BC structure is changing. I even add a bit more powdered sugar.
Yes, that's what happened to me too. I had to use 2 packs of cherry koolaid and it was still only a light pink and tasted NASTY and had a grittiness to it. It was so tart and powerful, I would never use it to color my BC again. I had to use a whole jar of Wilton red red anyway just to get the icing to the color I wanted. Nope, no more koolaid for me. 
If the BC structure is changing, try adding some meringue powder.
i don't know how much red you are going to use, but i had a wedding cake to do that half of the surface area on it was red...i added color and added and added...it never got really red. I was so disguested with it that i called wal-mart. i knew that i could get icing at sam's but didn't know if wal-mart could sell it to me. i had to buy a 8 lb. tub of it, which is a lot, but i had to get red.
to make a long story short, i haven't tried to mix red since then, and the bride(who just happened to be my very picky sister whom i knew that i would get an honest opinion out of good or bad) loved the cake, so it was well worth the trip to town to get it...even if i wasn't the one that had to go running in the middle of decorating, my loving hubby went. he will pretty much do anything i need during a cake...he knows that i stress way to much over my cakes.
You can use cherry Koolaid to get the icing very red. I used it for a groom;s cake over chocolate cake and it was delicious. The thing is that you just add the powder to your bc, not the liquid koolaid, and there's enough sugar in it already. The color does deepen over night, so keep that in mind.
Thank you all for the tips. The problem is that i live on a small caribean island where the wilton red is hard come by, and they don't sel Americolors either. So i was looking for an alternetive. So when i heard about the koolaid method, i gave it a try. But i still had to put a lot of red to get it red.
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