I need to know how to get a good color burgundy, that wont run for my flowers on MY wedding cake. Ive heard on wilton that burgundy is hard to make...color bleeds into the other...can turn dark...basically they scared me from it. But I'd really like to use it, thats my wedding color.
Next we're medics, met at work and we want the grooms cake to be an ambulance, a nice one...how can I bake one: would I get a sheet cake, and on top bake a bread pan? I know for the wheels I can use small cup cakes or even cookies...any ideas?

Not sure about the burgundy color - but for the ambulance, perhaps you can take a look at the instructions for the truck cake in Wilton's Celebrate with Fondant book - the truck is on p. 58, and adapt from that. But I'd recommend making the fondant wheels a LOT thicker than they say! (Or use cookies?) There are also great instructions for a fire truck cake that I've seen on here in the past.

I just read in a book that to get burgundy you need to mix red colouring with some brown colouring. The book didn't give amounts.

i did a burgandy cake and it was very tough to get all tiers to match and i used a TON of coloring. what about stripping your bag and having burgandy on the edges of your roses? or painting the roses with burg color and vodka?

i JUST made some flowers with americolor burgundy and i was pretty pleased with the results. maybe do royal icing flowers so the colors don't bleed? also, i think royal icing takes the color better. if you want to do a 3d ambulance, look under "school bus" pictures and go from there. maybe cut a 10" in half, stack on top of each other, make it a little shorter than 10" then use that to make the front.

i have some burgundy mmf roses in my pics, i used wiltons burgundy. i have since dusted them in burgundy luster dust (have'nt posted that pic) and they look fab...

kylie

I am working on a cake that I made a wine bottle out of sugarpaste. I painted the top with burgundy luster dust and the color is beautiful! So you could try the luster dust! Good Luck!