Antonia's Icing--How Much Red Coloring....
Baking By yummyhobby Updated 2 Feb 2009 , 10:09pm by DsLady614
does it take for you to achieve the primary super red color? The color I have is CakeCraft Super Chinese Red, which the lady at my cake supply store, should give me the red that I want. Does anyone have any experience with this color?
Is there something I am missing? Do I just need to let it sit longer, and then go back to it? Or do I need to add more color? I put quite a bit, but I wanted to make sure you guys are not using like almost a whole container of coloring or something.
TIA!! I know I asked a lot of questions, it's just so frustrating. 
I have never been able to get red in butter cream, or any icing for that matter!
I'm assuming that you are trying to tint a pretty large batch of buttercream?
Save yourself the huge headache of trying to dye bright/dark colours with those jars of paste and switch to Americolor brand colours. They are much, much more powerful for those shades like black, brown, purple, navy blue and red....and they have no aftertaste.
You can keep your jarred pastes for much easier tinting like pastels, etc. They work well for those. 
I am interested in changing to Americolors, too. Where do you order them from?
Here's their website. Call them and ask about local suppliers in your area, or you can order them online on most large cake supply websites out there now.
http://www.americolorcorp.com/
I'm in the process of switching all of my colors to Amiercolor. They really work so much better than the Wilton ones that I've been using, plus the squeeze bottles don't get your fingers all yucky.
Here are the 2 websites that I order mine from when I'm too lazy to go to the local cake supply shop. LOL...
www.globalsugarart.com
www.intotheoven.com
Ok... if you're living overseas... do NOT try ordering from Into the Oven! I tried to buy two cake pans from them once and they tried to charge me $100 for shipping! And they were SERIOUSLY not interested in working with me.
Another option is Country Kitchen Sweet Art. www.countrykitchensa.com
I have worked with them a couple times and I'll tell you, they were excellent to work with not living in the US. I will likely continue to buy from them even after we return to the states.
I'm going to chime in in favor of Americolor Super Red as well. It sure doesn't take a whole bottle. I start with a few drops at a time. When I get a darkish pink, I stop and let it sit. Then I'll take a little out, and let it set up in the air to see what color is gets. If needed, then I'll adjust a little bit more. You'll find, the less color you use, the less likely it is that the colors will bleed together.
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