wine red fondant

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Permalink Reply by Marsha Winbeckler on July 7, 2011 at 12:20pm

Teneisha,

 

There's only 3 primary colors and red is one of them (others are blue and yellow) so your only real option is to add blue. For color mixing, we use royal blue, lemon yellow and a pure pink (most reds have yellow in them and will mute any color that you only want 2 primary colors in). I would take a small piece of the red fondant and mix in a tiny bit of royal blue color to see whether the red has a lot of yellow. If it does, the color will turn a muddy or gray color instead of wine colored. If this is the case, you may need to color white fondant with a premade food color in the color of your choice. Since the color company would have left out the 3rd primary to get a vivid wine color so it should be a purer color (without yellow in the red).

 

This may be more info than you wanted, but I wanted to help you avoid a big batch of gray/brown fondant.

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Permalink Reply by Lisa Seidling on July 7, 2011 at 12:54pm

I have added the wilton burgundy and a tiny bit of americolor black to red to get that wine red color.  I think the base in the americolor black is a purple/blue color, which works well to get that deeper color like Marsha mentioned with the blue. 

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Permalink Reply by Marsha Winbeckler on July 7, 2011 at 1:06pm

Black contains all 3 primaries in very intense form so by adding black, you would also be adding yellow.

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Permalink Reply by Teneisha Williams on July 7, 2011 at 2:39pm

Thank you ladies for your responses. I will do a trial run of both methods.

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Permalink Reply by Lisa Seidling on July 7, 2011 at 3:42pm

I thought I would show the color that I ended up with- just to make sure that was what you were looking for.  I find myself using this alot instead of pure red, it is much more rich - I really like it. 

 

Happy experimenting!

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