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Amy28
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 7:21 pm  Reply with quoteBack to top
I have tried many things to get my fondant a purple colour. Wilton paste turns a sickly grey-blue colour, colour dust makes it taste really weird. Mixing red and blue colouring together is unreliable and makes colours that are hard to recreate.

How can I get a nice purple fondant colour? I'm at a loss.
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cali4dawn
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 03, 2004 9:09 pm  Reply with quoteBack to top
I need a purple also... I'm very close to going to Michaels and purchasing some already colored fondant... as much as I hate doing it.
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labrat
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 7:36 am  Reply with quoteBack to top
It may depend on the brand of fondant you are using....at least one brand of white fondant has a whitening agent in it which interacts with some of the gel colorants. I had a lovely robin's egg blue result from using the violet get in white fondant; the manufacturer told me that the ivory fondant is to be used when colouring. There was nothing about this on either label though..... Shocked
I ended up using rolled buttercream for the pink and purple parts of the cake, and the fondant for green and yellow (it was a girl's first birthday cake).
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cali4dawn
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 10:09 am  Reply with quoteBack to top
Thanks LABRAT! That's a great tidbit to know. It makes sense.... but they should have placed a warning on the box. Crying or Very sad
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izzybee
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PostPosted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 6:04 pm  Reply with quoteBack to top
Americolor works best for me.
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