Eek! Yellow Frosting! Help!!!

Decorating By milocat15 Updated 28 Aug 2007 , 10:34pm by tobycat

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milocat15 Posted 28 Aug 2007 , 7:01pm
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I accidentally used butter flavored crisco, the result? yellow frosting. Does anyone know how I can get this yellow mess back to white???

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abslu Posted 28 Aug 2007 , 7:56pm
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Huh, I'm not quite sure. I know that Wilton makes a "white" type stuff that will help make things white again! I can't think of what it's called off the top of my head. I saw it at Michaels when I was there! I hope this helps. If nothing else, it'll give you a bump! icon_biggrin.gif

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tiggy2 Posted 28 Aug 2007 , 8:04pm
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You can try the tiniest drop of violet coloring and it may help (violet cancels out yellow).

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tobycat Posted 28 Aug 2007 , 8:07pm
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Add a tiny bit of violet (a drop at a time or a little bit on a toothpick of the gel) and mix until it appears white. I know it sounds odd, but violet cancels out yellow on the color spectrum, and your icing will get whiter. Just add a little at a time until you get the white you want. Too much violet will obviously start making it violet.

I do this all the time, especially when I'm making a wedding cake. I use butter in my icing, and it yellows it a bit. The violet trick really works!

One note about it though -- sometimes, I've noticed that the icing takes on an oh so slighly gray appearance in the KA. Don't worry, it will still look white when spread on. I actually practiced this the first time by icing a cake with my regular icing and then using the violet and icing over the original stuff. It was Waaaaaaay whiter!

Good luck!

S.

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milocat15 Posted 28 Aug 2007 , 8:47pm
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Thank you so much! This trick works (and is great because I have an entire stock of butter flavored crisco!)Crisis averted!!!

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tobycat Posted 28 Aug 2007 , 10:34pm
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So glad you had some violet on hand and that the crisis was averted! thumbs_up.gif

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