Help! Blue Cake

Decorating By pennywells Updated 23 Sep 2007 , 5:57pm by sgilmer

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pennywells Posted 23 Sep 2007 , 2:43am
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I am making a cake for tommorrow and I have iced it already but I am not happy at all with the color. The customer wanted blue. My icing is a light, baby blue and I tinted a little more darker for trim work. I think it looks to babyish. Is there anything else I can do to darken it up. I used almost a small bottle of royal blue coloring. I hope the customer wasn't thinking navy because she's not going to get it.LOL.

Any advice.

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bobwonderbuns Posted 23 Sep 2007 , 2:49am
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Buttercreams always get darker overnight -- maybe a shade or two. Keep that in mind before mixing in more color. Hope that helps some! icon_biggrin.gif

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jamhays Posted 23 Sep 2007 , 2:55am
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Did you taste the icing after putting the whole bottle of color in it? I think that would make it VERY bitter tasting. I HATE having to make dark colors...they are such a pain.

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BakingGirl Posted 23 Sep 2007 , 2:55am
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If she seems disappointed just tell her the icing will taste better with less food colouring!

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sewlora Posted 23 Sep 2007 , 3:02am
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when I need an intense color, I usually pick up a tube of Wilton's pre-colored icing. It doesn't have a bitter taste like you can get when you have to use a lot of color gel.

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pennywells Posted 23 Sep 2007 , 1:00pm
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Thanks everyone

I think I will explain to her about to much coloring adding a bitter taste, that is if she complains. Thanks for that tidbit. She is my cleaning lady so hopefully she what get to mad.

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moptop Posted 23 Sep 2007 , 1:38pm
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you might be able to spray it blue with the wilton spray colos... (I think they have blue)

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sgilmer Posted 23 Sep 2007 , 5:57pm
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You can add a little bit of black. I've done it before with pink because it was too neon looking. It pretty much just made it darker.

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