Green food colour

SarahJ

Hi all, I am making a giant cupcake Christmas tree, but cannot get the right shade of Christmas tree green! Can anyone reccommend a colour, or any tips to get that perfect green?

janmaree

If you can't find the right shade, I think you'll have to mix your own, as in yellow and blue together but I imagine you'll have to make quite a bit to get such a dark green colour in the finished cakes! Anyway, that's what I'd do. Good luck!!!

seosamh1980

What kind of colouring are you using, liquid? Don't bother trying to mix them to make it, there are loads of shades of gel/paste colours that will be suitable, you'll get them in cake decorating shops or websites. Holly green, Kelly green, party green, leaf green, etc, etc.

SarahJ

I got a holly green gel, I don't think I put enough in though. Also I forgot to mention it's buttercream icing that I'm colouring, so that could be my problem too

seosamh1980

Buttercream is fine to colour with gel or paste, I've used paste ones to colour it before, but not for very deep colours, takes a lot of colouring to get dark colours.

P.o.p.p.y

The goodalls green liquid colour in Tesco is a dark green an is less than a Euro and works perfectly with buttercream. Much better than the Dr otkur colours.