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Hello all,
I’m looking for some tips and advice on colouring large quantities of fondant icing. I am making my friends wedding cake and she wants it coloured purple! I have found the colour she wants but I suppose I have to colour all the icing at the same time, otherwise the shades will be different.

Any advice greatly appreciated!

Sharon

I recently did this exactly for my own wedding and coloured sufficient fondant for four cakes and the board in ivory. What I did was coloured about 250g of paste a much deeper shade than I needed. Then I weighed out 25g of this darker colour and kneaded it into 500g of white. (You can obviously vary this amount to achieve the shade you need). I did this over and over, weighing accurately each time. The colour was a perfect match and I had some spare of the original dark shade ready to make extra if required. As an extra precaution I kneaded batches together when I needed to mix them for one cake. I’m not sure if this is the conventional method, but it worked perfectly for me. Gill

Hello Poobrains

If you type in the search box ‘Purple paste’, there is a similar question to yours which might help.

Thanks for your help – much appreciated.I’ve just bought a packet of Renshaw’s purple icing and it works quite well – all I need to do now is start another topic.. how do you get icing sugar off coloured fontant….

You may know this already but it’s very hard to get a good photograph of a purple cake. It either looks brown or grey but never the nice purple it is in real life!

Hi Poobrains – use a brush with some vodka – that should do it!