Cake decorating!!!!!

[babalon]

using liquid food colouring how do you make a nice light brown colour to dye ready made icing? have primary colours and black but tescos definately doesn't do brown??

Anyone?

add cinnamon to a yellow colouring?

red and add small amounts of blue till you get the desired colour.

To be honest you should buy a specially made dye. I know a shop called Sophisticake in Southend on Sea which does ready to roll in every colour or they do these little tubs of colour which you only need a pin prick of to make icing the right colour. They last for years and are about 1.70. You could try phoning them and asking

The website is here I can recommend them thoroughly as I am in there every time I need icing.

I wouldn't use liquid colours to colour sugarpaste. You can buy colours from speciality cake shops that do a much better job. They are more of a paste and you only need a tiny amount to create create colour, the liquid ones don't give a very rich colour and make the icing more sticky and nasty to work with.

SHA, I was really impressed by them, but I have only used them once and they were for butter icing so am probably talking out of my arse. I literally only put a cocktail stick in to this gell and added. Was spectacular.
For big spreads of icing I buy it ready to roll from those people.

thanks guys,
after an internet search I think I've found a specialist shop about 20 miles away. Now all I have to do is design a piriate cake for a 1 year old by saturday!