How to Make Salmon Colored Icing for Cake Decorating

Whether its for a wedding cake, birthday cookies or tea biscuits, colored icing can dress up any dessert for a variety of occasions. Turning white icing into the perfect shade of peachy salmon takes a cursory knowledge of the color wheel as well as some practice with mixing. Using the right type of food coloring will also enhance the quality and consistency in the mixed color of your icing. Mix various shades of colors into your next batch of icing to create the right shade of salmon for your confection.

Things You'll Need

Measuring cups
1/4 cup white, buttercream icing
Toothpicks

Red food coloring gel
Yellow food coloring gel
Icing knife or spatula

Instructions

Scoop 1/4 cup of white buttercream or royal icing into a mixing bowl.
Dip a toothpick into a container of red food coloring. Coat half of the toothpick in the gel.
Swirl the toothpick into the icing. Mix the coloring and the icing together with a spatula or small icing knife.
Dip the toothpick into a container of yellow food coloring gel. Swirl it into the icing.
Mix the icing again thoroughly to combine.
Wait 1 to 2 hours to allow the coloring to deepen in the icing mixture.
Add small amounts of red or yellow to adjust the color of your icing. Use a fresh toothpick every time you dip into the gel. Keep track of how many times you add food coloring to make replicating the color easy.

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