How to color buttercream without getting white spots or color separating??? Help please!
Hi. Can anyone tell me what am I doing wrong? I was making smurfs cupcakes. When I tried to color my buttercream made of real butter, powder sugar, almond flavor, whipping cream into blue, everything looked just fine until the moment when I put it into piping bag. I could see white stripes or spots in blue. I mixed it for longer time to getting together but it did not help.
I tried make buttercream with better butter, more enxpensive sugar- with no effect. I colored same batch yellow and it looked just fine. I have no idea what to do and how to get nice smurfies blue color without separating color from butter. Any advice???
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Permalink Reply by Deah on
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Normally I hear of white spots when salt is used and not disolved all the way. That's why I don't use salt anymore. As far as the blue dots go, is your gel fresh? If it is old maybe it is too thick to mix properly in the BC.
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Permalink Reply by Majka Hianik on
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How fresh does it have to be? I might have it a few months. I am using Wilton gel colors. No salt this time because I read about problems with that and I did not buy me popcorn salt which they say is better for BC.
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Permalink Reply by Joanna Higgs on
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I had that problem about a month ago when mixing a very dark buttercream. I put it in the fridge for 30 minutes and the colour blended back together and was then absolutely fine. It appears mine got too warm.
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A few months should be fine. You'll know it's old when it gets really gooey.
Majka Hianik said:How fresh does it have to be? I might have it a few months. I am using Wilton gel colors. No salt this time because I read about problems with that and I did not buy me popcorn salt which they say is better for BC.
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