We all don’t want a white wedding cake we want colour but what’s
the best way to get it, food colouring or gels? So we decided to test both in
an all-out colour war and decide what works best. We tested the pigment to
amount of colouring needed to achieve it, the taste and the price.
The normal food colouring that you buy in the grocery store
retails for around 5 dollars and you get the basic colours. Red,blue,yellow,
and green, allowing you to make a multitude of colours. We tested this on one
batch of our buttercream frosting and had to add a lot to get a muted version
of the colour we wanted. it also never got any darker, when we added more and
let it sit for a while. Than finally came the taste test. With all the food
colouring in it we found it made the icing taste very artificial. This is a
good way to hype any kid up on sure.
The gel colouring that can be purchased at Michaels craft
stores for 2$ or bulk barns for the same price. we purchased the same colours
(red, yellow, blue, greeen) to keep the tests fair, although there is a large
variety of other colours avalible. We than made another batch of our
buttercream. We found that with the gel a little goes a long way. Using a 1/4
of the amount as the standard food colouring to get a more pigmented colour. When
it came to the taste test we found that the gels had little to no effect on the
taste or integrity of the icing.
In this battle of the colours gels win and is what we use in
the bakery for every cake.
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