Getting Ivory Colored Buttercream - Urgent
Decorating By moralna Updated 29 Sep 2006 , 3:20am by Derby
I just used Wilton's Ivory color paste...but using a dark vanilla as opposed to clear will give an off white tinge.
Ivory Coloring gel. It works fine. I used it yesterday.
Also, if not available. Just a dab of red and just a dab of green.
When you flavor your icing, instead of using "clear vanilla," just use the regular "brown vanilla." This will tint it very close to a true ivory.
Or, there's always the Wilton Ivory coloring--available at the cake supply.
Or, you could put one part brown with one part yellow--at the very lightest touch of a toothpick into the icing. You'd have to touch the toothpick to the icing like a butterfly, though--I've done it, but it's the lightest touch you could imagine on the end of a toothpick just touched into the buttercream and removed. This yields an ivory color, too.
HTH,
--Knox--
Wilton has a n actual "ivory" gel paste color. I have used it bafore and really think it's pretty. If you look in my photos, the wedding cake that is on 3 seperate scroll stands, with the real flowers on top, "my first wedding cake" is the ivory color. The best place to find the wilton colors where I live, is at any Micheal's store...hope that helps
For my daughter's ivory wedding cake, I used the regular vanilla and it came out a beautiful shade of ivory.
Leslie
I LOVE it when someone asks for ivory because I can just use a good old fashioned buttercream. I use all butter rather than shortening and then I use Mexican vanilla! It's soooo yummy, beats the clear vanilla taste any day! I have also used the Wilton ivory and it works well too, if you need a more deep ivory....doesn't that sound funny, deep ivory.... 
If you are making more then one batch of buttercream. Take a clear bowl or glass pitcher and add your coloring to it. This way you can see just what color you are getting. Just remember it will dry a shade darker and each batch will be the same color from the colored water. I like the brown and yellow mix along with the brown vanilla. Great Ivory.
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