Hi, I am new to the forum and have a question about "coloured" icing (dusting) sugars
I have to make a birthday cake (birthday is on Sep 28th) and this is the cake I am making:
The recipe is here:
http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/chocolate-fudge-cake,1749,RC.html
I will not be making it exactly the same as in the recipe, there will be no nuts, instead, I will be putting a stencil over the top of the cake and dusting it with icing sugar, what I want to know is, how do I make yellow and orange dusting icing sugar from white icing sugar?
Can I mix liquid food colouring in to some white icing sugar to change the colour? Obviously, that will make it go hard when it dries, so I will have to grind it all down to fine powder again, will that work?
Alternatively, if I can't make coloured icing sugar to dust with, I will just have to use the plain white and add some cocoa powder to it to get differing shades from white to darker brown, any advice would be appreciated, thanks.
SP.
I have to make a birthday cake (birthday is on Sep 28th) and this is the cake I am making:
The recipe is here:
http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/chocolate-fudge-cake,1749,RC.html
I will not be making it exactly the same as in the recipe, there will be no nuts, instead, I will be putting a stencil over the top of the cake and dusting it with icing sugar, what I want to know is, how do I make yellow and orange dusting icing sugar from white icing sugar?
Can I mix liquid food colouring in to some white icing sugar to change the colour? Obviously, that will make it go hard when it dries, so I will have to grind it all down to fine powder again, will that work?
Alternatively, if I can't make coloured icing sugar to dust with, I will just have to use the plain white and add some cocoa powder to it to get differing shades from white to darker brown, any advice would be appreciated, thanks.
SP.