Red Buttercream

Do you remember as a child when your red crayon seemed to be the shortest one in the box? Hearts, flowers, apples, and holiday pictures all require red and you might have pressed harder and harder to make it the deepest red you could get. 

It’s easy to approach coloring your buttercream the same way. You make your buttercream from scratch, you add a few drops of red food coloring, you mix and the color is pink. So you add more food coloring and mix more and still it’s nowhere near the color you need. Before you know it, you’ve used more food coloring than you planned, and the buttercream still isn’t the deep color you need for piping a rose.

Here’s a tip we think is worth trying. 

After adding your red food coloring, use an immersion blender to thoroughly blend the buttercream. The blending process produces a deeper, richer shade without adding an excessive amount of food coloring. 

Another trick? Give it time. If possible, color your buttercream 24 hours before decorating. Over time the color develops.