Are Dr Oetker food colour gels any good?

[sharond101]

Looking for food colour to give a bright effect to decorate a child's birthday cake. Are the Dr Oetker gels any good or should i order some food colour paste? I probably won't use them again so didn't want to have to spend alot on them and my local Asda have the Dr Oetker ones.

[fallenempires]

I haven't used them as I've always found that their other food colourings aren't very effective and alot is needed to achieve a decent colour which I feel affects the flavour of the icing.
I would recommend buying either Squires or Sugarflair paste colours.You can buy these online or from a cake dec shop.
They also come with a long use by date usually a good few years.

[ChunkyPickle]

I had them, used an entire tube of the red for a smal batch of biscuits, and just about got a pink.

I agree with fallen empires - the only ones worth getting are the little tubs of paste colours from a cake decorating shop - nothing I've bought in a supermarket has been very good at all.

[shoppingbagsundereyes]

No. Bought red, got pink. The best gels I've got were from Jane Asher's website.

[GwendolineMaryLacey]

No, they're utter crap. If you want things actually coloured then go for Wiltons. If you want them an insipid shadow of the colour you chose then go for the DrO

[sharond101]

I got some pastes today.