I made a few test minis over the weekend, and already have an order for one of them... ...Only problem is, the test one I made has been sitting now for one day, and the coloring in my buttercream has leeched into the surrounding white fondant! These take forever to make, so I KNOW at least some of them will have to sit for a day, which means it will happen again! Is there a trick to keeping your buttercream colors IN the buttercream? Help!
Thank you 
Someone? Anyone? Please help, and let me know if I need to be clearer in my description of the problem.
Thank you!
I think that usually this problem happens more with dark colors. I don't know how to prevent it so here's a bump.
I'm very new to using fondants, but if I post it will bring back to top....is that a bump??
Anyway, does it have to be buttercream? Would royal icing not leach the colors, since there is no butter in it?? Not sure if this would work or if the taste would be okay, but you could test it on a rolled out piece of fondant
Thank you guys! I'll try royal icing instead and post back to let you know how it goes...
I'm confused, is this what happened....you colored your buttercream and put white fondant on top if it and the color bled through to the fondant? Was the fondant put on as a border or something? I read somewhere about putting some wax paper between the fondant and buttercream ( think they did this when they had the fondant look like ribbon going around the cake)...would this help?
Sorry, I don't have much fondant experience either.
I was replying with the thought that your buttercream was on top piped in some sort of design, hence the idea for royal. Hope it works out !
maybe you could share a photo of your 'mini' you are refering too... would love to see what we are talking about...
Hi Guys - thanks for all of the responses! I've tried the royal icing and I'll post tomorrow to let you know if it worked, but I was talking about rolled fondant roses next to colored buttercream. I've attached a picture of the cupcakes (it's the one in front on the right), the bleeding at this point is only showing a little (this picture was taken right after they were done). Basically, the violet buttercream "leaves" bled into the white fondant rolled roses, and the day after they looked horrible...
Oh posting the pic helped show the problem.
Your color is too dark. I bet the icing was freshly made too.
When you want to use dark colors, make the icing at least 24 hrs in advanced and there should not be a problem. It takes time for color to develope in b'c so you will use less in the long run.
Yes, using royal will also be o.k.
I agree that royal should solve your problem. But the real reason I'm posting is to say that your minis are fantastic.
Thank you to everyone who helped, and for the compliments! The royal icing worked, so I know that my client will be happy. CC and the people who it's made up of are the best!!!!!
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