Hello! What shade or gel color should I use to achieve this kind of blue?
Will be making this soon and wanted to know what mix of blue do I need to achieve this kind of color. Thanks!
by aitchsmamiii
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Any_Iron3375
I would say an extremely light royal with the tiniest amount of brown. Or cornflower blue if you can find it. And some blues fade, so I would make a test run in advance. I usually make my blues a tad darker than I want them to be.
Green-Cockroach-8448
Colour Mill’s Blue Bell looks pretty similar to this on its own. But you would probably have to make your frosting white before adding the blue if you wanted to the colour to come through accurately.
CanuckInTheMills
Remember colour develops over time, so very light colours become darker 1/2 later. Cornflower or Delphinuim in Wilton, Navy in Americolor or Cake Craft or Bluebell in Sugarfair.
Auntie_Cagul
Depending on which country you are from you may need to accept that a specific shade of blue may be impossible to achieve. Different countries have different food colouring laws. Colours available in the US may not be available in the UK, for example.
You will need to be aware that butter will colour the icing/frosting yellow, and in turn this will mean your buttercream will take on a greenish tinge when you add blue. You can whiten the buttercream by adding tiny amounts of purple until a pale grey colour is achieved and then add your blue food colouring. I would add Baby Blue (Sugarflair brand) and possibly a little Deep Purple as well.
LadyRimouski
I’m a painter, so I would just use primary colours to colour match.
It’s a blue on the indigo side rather than the teal side, so I’d start with blue and add a tiny bit of red till it looked right. The slight softness might come from the yellow in the buttercream, or it might be a tiny touch of yellow, brown or black.
BoopySkye
One part blue to white buttercream. And half part yellow and pink or purple. I’d start with less than half part yellow and pink/purple, and add more till you reach the right color. Start with less food coloring over all, it’s better that it’s paler than you need it to be and can add more color. Can’t do the other way round unless you have more white buttercream left over.
There’s a cool website called trycolors.com that I use more frequently for painting but I suppose the same can be done for buttercream colors. You can select a color there on a palette and it’ll tell you what you need to mix and in what proportions to achieve that color.
ohtheroutine
baby blue by colour mill can definitely achieve this
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I would say an extremely light royal with the tiniest amount of brown. Or cornflower blue if you can find it. And some blues fade, so I would make a test run in advance. I usually make my blues a tad darker than I want them to be.
Colour Mill’s Blue Bell looks pretty similar to this on its own. But you would probably have to make your frosting white before adding the blue if you wanted to the colour to come through accurately.
Remember colour develops over time, so very light colours become darker 1/2 later. Cornflower or Delphinuim in Wilton, Navy in Americolor or Cake Craft or Bluebell in Sugarfair.
Depending on which country you are from you may need to accept that a specific shade of blue may be impossible to achieve. Different countries have different food colouring laws. Colours available in the US may not be available in the UK, for example.
You will need to be aware that butter will colour the icing/frosting yellow, and in turn this will mean your buttercream will take on a greenish tinge when you add blue. You can whiten the buttercream by adding tiny amounts of purple until a pale grey colour is achieved and then add your blue food colouring. I would add Baby Blue (Sugarflair brand) and possibly a little Deep Purple as well.
I’m a painter, so I would just use primary colours to colour match.
It’s a blue on the indigo side rather than the teal side, so I’d start with blue and add a tiny bit of red till it looked right. The slight softness might come from the yellow in the buttercream, or it might be a tiny touch of yellow, brown or black.
One part blue to white buttercream. And half part yellow and pink or purple. I’d start with less than half part yellow and pink/purple, and add more till you reach the right color. Start with less food coloring over all, it’s better that it’s paler than you need it to be and can add more color. Can’t do the other way round unless you have more white buttercream left over.
There’s a cool website called trycolors.com that I use more frequently for painting but I suppose the same can be done for buttercream colors. You can select a color there on a palette and it’ll tell you what you need to mix and in what proportions to achieve that color.
baby blue by colour mill can definitely achieve this