The red food coloring color always makes pink and I want to make my White mild chocolate red so I can put stripes of red on the chocolate dipped pretzels. Anyone have a TRUE and TRIED way to do this with food coloring?

TIA!

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I buy the little tubs of gel food coloring made by Wilton. Walmart carries them, and you can usually find them in the craft section. They are sold separately by colors, and you can get true red with these. Good luck!

I found this:

There isn't a lot written about tinting white chocolate.
You can "paint" colors on the set, molded white chocolate (or any chocolate) or white chocolate plastic -- mix colors by combining powdered food coloring with cocoa butter in a 6 to 1 ratio (cocoa butter to food coloring) and keeping them warm while using them. (A yogurt maker is the perfect temperature range or keeping them in custard cups set on a heating pad set on low, low, low). Add the cocoa butter until you achieve a medium thickness in "paint". Then, paint on your colors using a paintbrush. You can also silkscreen on the colors, if you have time!

However, paste food coloring, as powdered, can be used to color the molded white chocolate or white chocolate plastic with after you mix and refrigerate it for at least an hour. The chocolate plastic has to have the consistency of playdough. Knead the color in.

The best way to tint white chocolate while melting or already melted is with oil based coloring: Chocolate But, you can safely use powdered food coloring. Do not use any water-based food coloring or the chocolate will seize and be ruined. Add the color slowly and stir, stir, stir while you do.

You can also use Mercken's Candy Coatings. They come in a myriad of colors and all you do is melt them.



Or, how about red candy melts??

Candy Melts® - Wilton

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Use Wilton food coloring-much brighter.

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Unfortunately I only have liquid coloring tubes so I need suggestions for them...BUT ...Thanks for the suggestions though ..I appreciate them. I guess I will skip the red LOL! I will just just some green and Some with sprinkles.

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ummm.....how about using gloves? Or even plastic baggies to cover your hands while working w/ the food coloring?

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I ended up calling Wilton one time - I was making a "Clifford" cake for a friend, and her Wilton (the professional cake decorator's choice brand) had a color called "TRUE RED" (also had "CHRISTMAS RED" - much the same - what could make a more true red, right? It was a gel, which is also preferred, because it doesn't mess with the consistency of the frosting.

Well, the customer service rep I spoke with told me that, in order to create a really "true" Clifford red (not pink), I would need to use at least one small jar of the coloring, and would need to add a little color every couple of hours to my frosting - and after a matter of 2 DAYS, I should have a true red.

I was disgusted! I can't even believe they get away with selling that stupid color - it is NOT true red, unless you are willing to add TWO jars of the gross stuff to the frosting...imagine all that coloring inside the little bodies of the unassuming 3 year olds at the birthday party...gross.

I never got over that. And my friend was always disgusted that she had to serve a pink Clifford cake at her boy party.

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