How to Add Color to Fondant

Now I’ll show you how to color the fondant. For this cake, we’re going to use a lot of different colors. So, I’m going to show you how to add color to the fondant.

The fondant comes in white, usually like this and then you buy some food colors. Now, you don’t want to use the liquid food kinds. You want to use either a paste or gel. You can get the colors from the cake decorating department of a craft or a specialty baking store.

I have a toothpick here and you take the color and you kind of rub it in to the fondant. Then you want to knead it in until it becomes nice and solid color.

This is a copper color and it’s specified to be used for a light skin tone. We’re making a cake that has a lot of people on it and this is the color you would use for a light skin-tone people. If you want to add more browns or change the color, you can add other colors.

As you knead it and stretch it you see that it becomes a little bit stripy and you want to continue that until it becomes solid.

As you knead it, you can see that it becomes stripy like this and you just continue kneading until you have a solid color. You may actually in some cases want to have this sort of marbleized stripy look and at that point you could stop and use it.

But for the skin tone, I want it to be a solid skin tone color.
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