Another Food Coloring Question - Pink

Baking By hippiecac Updated 7 Jun 2016 , 2:43pm by ypierce82

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hippiecac Posted 6 Jun 2016 , 3:26pm
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I'm tinting 6 cake layers in varying levels of intensity (ombre). Planning on adding bright white and a dot of violet to batter to negate as much yellow as possible, but still have concerns about lightest pinks going salmon. 

My color options are: 

Americolor deep pink

Americolor soft pink

Americolor electric pink


Has anyone had greater success with any of those specific color in this type of application? 

Thanks

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ropalma Posted 6 Jun 2016 , 4:00pm
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You should start with a white cake batter.

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hippiecac Posted 6 Jun 2016 , 4:34pm
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Yes, my cake batter is white and as I said I'm adding bright white and a dot of violet to negate yellow.  

My question is if any of the pinks I mentioned bake up better without turning salmon. Thanks.

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ypierce82 Posted 6 Jun 2016 , 4:52pm
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The Electric Pink baked up nice for me and it did not have any weird tones to it. I would assume that the lighter the color choice, the more risk there is to getting a color that you may not want. The soft pink may end up salmon because it is already a light color.

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hippiecac Posted 7 Jun 2016 , 1:31pm
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Tried Electric Pink & it worked like a charm. Thanks ypierce82!

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ypierce82 Posted 7 Jun 2016 , 2:43pm
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That is great! You're welcome!

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