Add Food Coloring To Icing W/o Ending Up With A Bitter Taste
Decorating By praetorian2000 Updated 13 Nov 2006 , 10:27pm by praetorian2000
I used the whipped butter cream frosting in the recipe section for a birthday cake. After adding the coloring, the icing was bitter, not sweet. (The strange thing is only the birthday boy and I could taste the bitterness. No one else could. His mother said it was the best icing mainly because it wasn't overly sweet.) But I'd like to know how to add coloring to icings without getting a bitter taste?
What color was the icing? Sometimes adding a lot of red to get a good red will cause a slight bitterness. If the icing wasn't red, or you didn't add a TON of coloring, maybe you and the birthday boy like sweeter icing. His mom mentioned that it was overly sweet, maybe that is why it tasted bitter to you and the birthday boy.
Just a thought.....
~Chelle
It was red. I was trying to make peach. I thought maybe a combination of red and pink would do the job. I accidentally came close to peach when I colored some candy melts. I thought I could do the same with icing and in no time I had a pink that was definitely not going to satisfy a 9-yr-old boy. So I almost added the entire bottle of red coloring.
The icing was sweet before the coloring. To me it was too sweet but it went amazingly well with the chocolate cake.
So I guess in the future I should go easy on the red?
It was definitely the red. I would go easy on the red. I have mixed I think red, yellow and maybe some copper to get peach - or just a little copper. To get red, color the icing hot pink (which it sounds like you did 
) and add a little red until you get red.
~Chelle
You can also look for Americolors. They produce very good deep colors without using alot of coloring.
Thanks, I'll definitely remember it next time. And I have to try Americolor. Although if no one else tasted the bitterness, I might not worry too much unless I'm making it for the birthday boy.
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