How To Make Green Fondant
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How To Make Green Fondant
Fondant is a versatile decorating icing that can be used to decorate baked goods with a smooth texture, or to shape a specific design such a flower to add to cakes or cupcakes. This video tutorial shows how easy it is to color fondant, specifically it shows green, but these general steps can apply to any color you may wish to use.
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Now, I'm going to show you how to make green fondant. The first thing we do is cut off a piece of fondant icing - as much as you need to dye green. I'm going to use professional paste colorings to dye this green.
The reason for that is they're a lot stronger than liquid colorings, so if you buy liquid coloring, you'll need more of it to get the vibrant color that you want. When you add more liquid to this type of icing, it gets really sticky and just makes it harder to work with, so if you have a paste coloring you'll need far less of it to get the color you need. How much you add is dependent on the kind of color you need.
If I mix this in, it is like a mint green color, so you can see that's coming through. If I add more, the more vibrant the color gets. This is kind of a primary green color, but if you wanted something to make leaves for example, you could use a different shade of green.
This green is called 'spruce', so you'll see the different color that it would make. So if you want a totally different shade of green, you'd have to buy a different shade of coloring. You can't just add more of a particular one to get it as dark as you want it.
This one is a different shade, so have a look at the different shades of green for the thing you are making. If I were making leaves, I would use this. If I were making a flower or something else, I would use a different green.
So that is two different shades of green. So that is how you make green fondant. .