Could somebody please help me? I have to make a large batch of red icing for roses and wondered if there was an easier way to make red without using a ton of red coloring. Can you start out with maybe pink and then add red to that. I don't want to alter the taste by using a lot of red. TIA
There have been a lot of posts on this and they pretty much agree that starting with pink, then adding Americolor red coloring. But I have achieved it with Wilton's no-taste Red, alot of it. It does tend to alter the consistency of your icing so now I start out with a stiff consistency, add the color, let it sit then see if you need more liquid. And it definitely gets darker as it sits.
Cherry Kool Aid works great....but then of course you have a rather tart cherry flavored icing. Not many people want that, I think it's kind of good but I'm a little wierd like that. I would do several small batches starting with pink then add in the no-taste red then add all the smaller batches together. Last time I tried to do a large batch I went thru one bottle of Christmas red, two bottles of no-taste and still ended up adding two packages of the koolaide (It was a cherry chip cake so it went well). That was for a double batch of buttercream.
Just my two cents.
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