As you may know I have a soft spot for soft pastel colors. So I have decided to show you some of my favourite food colors that I have in my tool box. Although I have a lot of different colors I always end up using colors from the same box.
I’m not sure why, but I have really difficulties working with strong powerful colors. So when I have to use more strong colors (often for boy themes) I still keep the colors soft.
There are a lot of different food color brands on the market, maybe more than the ones that I know of. So far I have three favourite brands: AmeriColor, Sugar Flair and Squires Kitchen. I have used the ones I love the most for color samples. I have also made some color samples of the green colors that I use for gumpaste leaves and royal icing piped wines. It is often two green colors mixed into a new color.
Lets start, from left to right.
1. Pink: My most used pink color are Pink/Sugar Flair. Here shown in three color tones, from light to dark.
2. Yellow: Cream/Sugar Flair, Melon/Sugar Flair, Cream & Melon mixed together, Orange/AmeriColor.
3. Green: Party Green/Sugar Flair, Mint Green/Sugar Flair, Avocado/AmeriColor, Spruce Green/Sugar Flair.
4. Green mixed: Party Green and a small dot of Spruce Green, Spruce Green and a dot of Party Green, Avocado and a dot of Party Green (Leaf green from AmeriColor could be used instead).
5. Blue: Ice Blue/Sugar Flair. Shown in two tones, Hydrangea/Squires Kitchen, Wisteria/Squires Kitchen.
6. Purple:
7. Ivory and Brown: Caramel/ivory/Sugar Flair, Dark Brown/Sugar Flair.
I hope that you can find inspiration to maybe try out some new colors?
Happy Caking!
Louise
45 comments
Ali Bunn says:
Jan 12, 2011
Lovely colours! I had problems trying to get a good purple for my wedding cupcakes because I specifically didn’t want lavender but something brighter. In the end went for one called ‘Grape’ by Sugarflair. Nice to see what others are using though!
Anonymous says:
Jan 12, 2011
Ali: I was planning to show the Grape Violet from SF. But I could not find it. I did find after my post was out…… I need to clean up my toolbox.
Anonymous says:
Jan 12, 2011
Ali: I was planning to show the Grape Violet from SF. But I could not find it. I did find after my post was out…… I need to clean up my toolbox.
{oc cottage} says:
Jan 12, 2011
I LOVE YOUR BLOG! My crazy friend just told me about it at work today and I couldn’t wait to get home to see! Deliciously fabulous!
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Gabrielle says:
Jan 12, 2011
Hi,
I’m a Sugarflair and Americolor girl too. The only thing I’d add is the Americolor Electric Pink makes the prettiest pale pastel pink. I love Sugarflair Primrose and Navy. For those that make sugarflowers Sugarflair Gooseberry is a must have for buds and some stamens/flower centres. And Americolor Regal Purple is a fave do to it’s fade rsistant properties for a true violet colour as the other non-fades are an aubergine colour. Those Squires colours look interesting, so I’ll check them out. Thanks Louise.
Anonymous says:
Jan 12, 2011
Gabrielle: I dont think that I have tried Gooseberry yet, I do have it. Navy is great too. Its very close to SK Wisteria. I find SF colors more strong than SK.
Anonymous says:
Jan 12, 2011
Gabrielle: I dont think that I have tried Gooseberry yet, I do have it. Navy is great too. Its very close to SK Wisteria. I find SF colors more strong than SK.
Robynn says:
Jan 11, 2011
Awww! I thought they were adorable! Such a nice layout. I was impressed! I was thinking about getting them when taxes came in in Feb.
Anna {Sugarized} says:
Jan 11, 2011
This is a very timely post for me. =)
Louise says:
Jan 11, 2011
Robynn: Unfortunately, the interest for the pdf was very low, so I decided to remove them for now.
Robynn says:
Jan 11, 2011
What ever happened to the pages you could purchase?
www.cuocicucidici.blogspot.com says:
Jan 11, 2011
Thank you it’s really interesting….hugs, Flavia