hi I'm Beth Somers from the Wilton Test
Kitchen and I want to show you two
different ways to color rolled fondant
the first way to do it is to actually
use two different colors of fondant like I
have here
and blend them together so here I have the green decorator preferred fondant
and I'm just
kneading it together with a piece of
white to create
a softer more subtle shade of green now
before I started I had kneaded my
both of the pieces of fondant a little
bit to get them nice and pliable which
doesn't take long with the decorator
preferred fondant because it's very soft and
pliable
you can see how quickly the color
actually begins to change
so that's how easy it is to do this with
the blending method like that
got a nice brand new custom color
and it's also a great way to use up
scraps the fondant that you have laying
around
the other way to color fondant and is to
use Wilton icing color
so I have teal here and to do this
I have my fondant that's again kneaded a
little bit to get it nice and loose for you
I'm just going to take a toothpick dip it into
my color
and then just make several dots of color
around the piece of fondant if I was
going to put in more color right now I
would want to use a new toothpick
always use a new toothpick so that you
don't introduce any food into your
icing color now this is a great tip
food safe gloves are a great way to keep
your hands from getting messy while you do
this they're not a necessity
but they're a nice
option and then we're just going to knead
this together
as we did with our blending
so just pushing it down
folding it over onto itself and check out
that color
now if you don't want a color fondant and
decorator preferred fondant is available
not just in white but in 8 vibrant
shades
and it's especially great
for those really hard to achieve colors
colors to take a lot of icing color like
red
black or dark brown so consider using
those if you don't want to color
so you can see here
I have a very nice piece of fondant and
these are great ways to achieve custom
shades of fondant
