Maroon coloured icing

goddiva, Nov 6, 4:56am
HELP! I'm wanting to ice a cake in the shape of a top and want it queensland league colour. how do i get themaroon colour!

geldof, Nov 6, 6:17am
Beetroot juice!

greerg, Nov 6, 6:23am
Bordeaux red gel colouring is maroon coloured.

chicco2, Nov 6, 7:00pm
Start with a pre made red fondant such as Satinince, and add wine coloured gel and a little black. Add small amounts and knead in. Use cooking spray not cornflour, when it gets sticky.

sclaredy_cat, Nov 7, 2:49am
This. Although I prefer to buy pettinice and colour it myself. Maroon is a very tricky colour to get without it going sticky as you will need a lot of colour if you do it from scratch, so chicco might be onto something by buying red premade :)

goddiva, Nov 7, 5:03am
thanks for the info

tortenz, Nov 7, 10:19pm
Black and bright pink is what I used.

It took me a long time to work out, and lots of fondant in the bin, and my hands were stained forever after!Anything I tried with red just went brown