food colouring question

[mamaLou13]

I have just made rainbow cake using the normal food colouring from morrisons as it was the only on they had and it is crap! the colours are very dull and not what they are supposed to be. Does anyone know of really good quality colours (preferably not super expensive).

You need food colour gels from a proper sugracraft/craft/baking shop, if you want really bold colours, but they are £££! I think the red I got fo rDS's fire engine cake last year was about £5.

Get yourself over to the Baking forum on here....HoneyDragon has just posted pics of her successful rainbow cake, with full details of colours used :)

Oh, and they weren't all that pricey :)

I use gel colours from a local kitchenware shop (also avail from posh cake shop) - think they are Wilton brand - and they're fab and only about £2 something. You only need a teeny tiny amount so last forever.

I think you probably bought natural food colourings - if you want really strong colours you'll have to load the icing with the artificial kind!

You need gel/paste colourings, it wont work otherwise.