I have a wedding cake to do in April and the bride would like ivory colored icing. How do I make it ivory colored? I'm very new at this so I hope this isn't a dumb question.

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There are no dumb questions! You can either use ivory coloring or when you make your icing if you use regular brown vanilla it will make a pretty ivory shade. Good luck!

I'm a brown vanilla person, too, with ivory food coloring on stand-by in case it needs to go a shade or two darker.

Ivory coloring and/or real vanilla is what I do too.

same here with the vanilla...and real butter. That gives it a nice ivory color too. Word of warning: DONT use brown coloring and think it will be just a light brown. It will be a light pink!! Use Ivory.

yes, I too have learned that regular vanilla will give you the lovely ivory color you need ..and...there are no dumb questions.

Wow didn't know that. And I just made an Ivory wedding cake too!

Thank you all very much for helping me with this. I appreciate it.

i made an ivory shade by using a very very very very small amount of copper/skin tone. it was more on the pink side, but it turned out decent.

Just wanted to add that you may want to have her supply a swatch or something if she is particular. Her ivory may be my beige and someone else's cream....KWIM

Just wanted to add that you may want to have her supply a swatch or something if she is particular. Her ivory may be my beige and someone else's cream....KWIM

Thanks for more replies. She just doesn't want the bright white. I am going to make some test batches of icing with all of your ideas and let her choose which one she wants.

I just love this website. Everyone is always so helpful. Especially to us beginners....

I hope everyone has a great day. Happy baking....

I use regular/brown vanilla to get the ivory color.

Cindy.. if you are going to let her choose, make sure you have a PURE WHITE choice, so she can actually tell the difference..... Ivory is used in place of white in many occasions....... ( As long as it isn't chocolate, it is white )

I agree with k8. Just make it.

When I have a bride who wants ivory, in a humorous style, I tell her, "sure! Ivory, off-white, cream, champagne ... it's all the same to me." which gives them the idea that this field of color is NOT an exact science.

She doesn't want white. As long as it's "not white", you'll be fine. Dont' overthink this one.

I'm with Kate on this one! Don't show her--I did this too on my very first cake--to get the perfect shade of pink for the bride--big mistake--I had many different shades of pink just a shade apart and when you get right down to it, they just wanted pink, not my angst about the perfect shade of pink. Just a wee bit of experience talking here ! Since then I've done lots of ivory cakes and my favorite is to use real vanilla to color the icing. If you do use ivory it takes like 1 drop per batch of icing--it'll go way ivory (golden) way fast!!!!

Never thought of it that way.
That could become a nightmare.
Thanks again....