Coloured fresh cream?!

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Hello everyone!

I am new and hope I have posted this in the correct place.

I'm making chocolate fondant with lemon cream and have been having issues with something and hopefully someone can help.

I was wanting the cream, which is double cream and not whipped at all, to be a bright and vibrant yellow. I added a few drops of yellow food colouring into the cream and the colour altered slightly, so i added more until i got the desired colour. Unfortunately, the cream tasted horrible! Almost an acrid, chemical taste. I ditched the lot as it was unfit for consumption.

Can anyone tell me what i did wrong, or whether it is even possible to colour double cream this way?

I know one can colour whipped cream quite easily, but doing it in liquid form seems to have stumped me.

Thanks in advance, and hellooo again :)
 


Thank you very much! I will give this a go. I didn't know it existed.



The contrast in colours between the dark, almost black fondant and the vibrancy of the yellow is very pretty, and coupled to other presentation goodies makes for a delicious 'first bite with the eye' :)
Ahhh, I see.
 
Well if you want a vibrant yellow, you could use saffron, yes it makes the cream taste but it amazing with dark chocolate.

I half whip my cream before I fold in gel colours , if I am going to use the cream whipped.
 
You can also use a cake decorating paste, even thicker than the gel.

You use only the tip of a toothpick to pick up the colour to add.

"Wilton" is around here. I have no idea if they are in the states or not. So try to find a cake decorating supply place near you.

For really intense colours they also have some with no flavours. Perhaps not all are tasteless, I don't do decorating any more so have been out of touch for a long time.

Hey! Don't forget to post a picture to make us drool....
 
Oops, Plymouth! :rolleyes: just realized you are in the United Kingdom, sorry for the assumption.

But I'm pretty sure you should be able to find a shop with paste and/or the gel over there ... especially after watching a BBC show of homecooks baking off! :LOL: tough bunch!
 
Oops, Plymouth! :rolleyes: just realized you are in the United Kingdom, sorry for the assumption.

But I'm pretty sure you should be able to find a shop with paste and/or the gel over there ... especially after watching a BBC show of homecooks baking off! :LOL: tough bunch!

Yes dragnlaw, we do have Wilton here is the U.S. In fact I have one of their coloring gel collections. :angel:
 
And Wilton have bright Yellow that doesnt taste too much, I can still taste but that because I didnt grow up on Azo colouring or bright coloured food.
 

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