Food Coloring Chart

A food coloring chart helps you in mixing different food colors to get a particular color that you desire. The following article on food coloring chart for icing will help you mix different colors for your cakes and frosting decorations.

Food colors help in making a particular food visually appealing. This helps in increasing your appetite and desire to eat. Most of us are attracted to a particular food, just because the color of the food. You can mix different colors and come up with different shades, and make your cakes and pastries look more attractive. You will find four basic food colors in grocery stores; red, green, yellow and blue. These are primary food colors (red, yellow and blue) that are used for mixing and coming up with different shades. You may also come across different food colorings like pink, orange, black and purple in stores. This article will provide you with a food coloring chart that you can use as a guide for creating a riot of colors. You can read more on cake recipes.

Mixing Food Colors The three primary colors can be mixed with any colors in a color wheel. You can even mix two primary colors and come up with a secondary color. You can even mix two secondary colors and get a different secondary color. You need to add drops of color in equal amount to get the perfect shade you are looking for. When using two primary colors, you should use unequal amounts of colors. This will help you get the different shades of colors. You can even one shade of color on one side of the white icing and add a different color on other side of the icing. Then slowly mix the different colors to create a new color shade. The following food coloring chart will help you in mixing different shades for your icing. You can read more on cake decorating

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Food Coloring Chart for Icing

In the following food coloring chart, you need to add the number of drops as indicated by the numerical value opposite the color shade. The food coloring chart is as follows:

• Apricot = 2 orange + 1 egg yellow
• Aqua = 5 sky blue + 1 leaf green
• Avocado = 4 lemon yellow + 1 leaf green + a touch of black
• Burgundy = 5 bakers rose + 1 violet
• Cantaloupe = 24 yellow+ 2 red
• Chartreuse = 5 lemon yellow + 1 leaf green
• Copper = 1 egg yellow + 1 brown + 1 Christmas red
• Coral = 3 rose pink + 2 lemon yellow
• Dusty Rose = 2 Christmas red + 1 brown
• Fuchsia = 18 red + 2 blue
• Gold = 10 lemon yellow + 3 orange + 1 Christmas red
• Grape = 1 sky blue + 6 bakers rose
• Hunter Green = Kelly green + small amount of black
• Ivory = 1 liquid whitener + a touch of brown + a touch of egg yellow
• Jade = 1 leaf green + 1 royal blue + a touch of black
• Jungle Green = 14 green + 6 yellow
• Lavender = 5 pink + 1 violet
• Lime = 24 yellow+ 4 green
• Maize = 24 yellow + 1 red
• Marigold = 3 lemon yellow + 1 orange
• Maroon = 4 red red + 2 burgundy
• Mauve = 5 rose pink + 2 orange + 2 red + 2 black
• Melon = 1 orange + 3 bakers rose
• Misty Green = 2 leaf green + 1 of royal blue + a touch of black
• Moss Green = 2 violet + 3 lemon yellow
• Navy Blue = 1 sky blue + 1 violet
• Orange Sunset = 17 yellow + 3 red
• Persimmon = 1 orange + 1 bakers rose
• Plum = 1 violet + a touch of Christmas red
• Purple = 15 blue+ 5 red
• Raspberry = 3 bakers rose + 1 Christmas red
• Red Grape = 1 sky blue + 6 bakers rose
• Red Persimmon = 1 orange + 1 bakers rose
• Rose Wine = 3 holiday red + 2 rose pink
• Ruby Red = 1 holiday red + a touch of black
• Rust = 8 orange + 2 red red + 1 brown
• Sea Gold = 2 sky blue + 1 leaf green
• Silver = 1 black + 1 blue
• Skin tone = 12 orange + 4 bakers rose + 1 royal blue
• Spearmint = 12 green + 6 yellow + 2 blue
• Teal = 15 green + 5 blue
• Teal = 9 sky blue + 1 lemon yellow
• Turquoise = 6 sky blue + 1 lemon yellow
• Watermelon = 25 red + 2 blue
• Wine = 3 Christmas red + 2 rose pink
• Yellow Maroon = 4 red red + 2 burgundy When mixing colors, you need to remember the following cake icing tips

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• You can lighten any color shade by adding small amounts of white icing.
• You can darken any color by adding a specific amount of the darker color of the icing.
• You can make pastel shades by adding 2 parts of white icing to 1 part of any desired color icing.

You can make black color by mixing equal parts of all the three primary colors. It is possible that you may have to add more of red food color to get the desired black shade. You can also refer this food coloring chart for adding colors to your Easter egg icing. People, especially children get attracted to foods by focusing on the colors. You can get more creative in your kitchen and come up with unique color shades to decorate you cakes with colorful icings. I hope this article on food coloring chart has helped you learn how to mix different food colors and add a splash of color to your food.