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How To Colour Buttercream
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Sep 6, 2024
With simple steps you can create bright and bold colours with buttercream and in this tutorial I’ll show you how! For my online cake decorating school click here: http://www.britishgirlbakes.com/online-courses To read a written version of this tutorial (with photos!) click here: http://www.britishgirlbakes.com/how-to-colour-buttercream/ SUBSCRIBE to my channel for new cake decorating tutorials every week!
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With simple steps you can create bright and bold colours with buttercream and in
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this tutorial I'll show you how. I use gel colours to colour my buttercream
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because they're very concentrated, much more concentrated than the liquid colours you can buy at the supermarket or grocery store. Start slow with just a
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drop or two. It's easy to adjust the darkness of the colour by adding a few
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more drops but not as easy to make the colour lighter after you've added too
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much colour. I used three drops of teal for this buttercream. If you make your
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buttercream too dark by adding too much gel, to lighten it add some more plain
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white buttercream to it. This also works if you have a colour you like and you
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want to tint another bowl of buttercream to be a lighter version of the same colour. Put a little bit of your first colour into a bowl and then add some
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plain white buttercream to keep the exact same colour but lighten it. This is
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really useful if you've used lots of different colours to create your first colour, say royal blue and sky blue and leaf green, and instead of using half of
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the amount of each of these gels to create a lighter version of the colour from scratch, you can lighten it very easily by adding white buttercream. If
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you're enjoying this tutorial please click the thumbs up button to like it
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and subscribe to my YouTube channel for a new cake decorating tutorial every week! To make a specific colour, start with the colour that's closest to that
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colour. So for a raspberry colour I'm starting with pink. If there's another
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colour that's obviously part of the colour you're trying to make, add that next, just a tiny amount at a time. I'm adding just one drop of red. Then think
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about whether you want the colour to be warmer or colder. Warm colours are yellow
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orange, red and pink and cool colours are green, blue and purple
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I want to add a teeny tiny bit of blue, much less than a full drop, and to do
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that just take the lid off that bottle of colour and dip a toothpick inside and
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then pull the toothpick through the buttercream to leave a little bit behind. You can add the rest of the gel that's on the toothpick later if you need to
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add more. Don't panic if you don't get the right colour straight away because
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you can keep tweaking it until you're happy with it. I'm adding a few more
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squeezes of pink until I make the colour I want but a lighter version of it. Colours
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develop and darken with time and exposure to air so expect the colours you make to be a little bit darker by the time you've frosted and decorated
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your cake. I know this colour is going to darken by the time I use it, after doing
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a bit of decorating with another colour and giving my raspberry buttercream a chance to develop to become not quite red but close to it, a deep raspberry
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pinky red. You can see the difference that about 30 minutes makes from this
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pinky raspberry colour to this shade which is closer to a raspberry red. You
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can mix colours to create every shade imaginable with different numbers of
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drops of each colour and I share the drop counts for 43 different colours in
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my online course on the basics of buttercream with exactly how many drops
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of the basic colours you need to use to create particular colours like olive
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slate, copper, lavender, salmon and neon green. Black and red are the two colours
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that people find the most challenging to make and I'll show you how much gel you need and two ways to make the colours even darker without using more gel in my
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online course on the basics of buttercream. In the basics of buttercream course I also teach how to make buttercream, store it and use it for lots
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of unique techniques. The link to my online cake school is in the top of the
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screen and in the description below this video. Thanks for watching
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