butter cream (icing) recipe....and food colouring

[Pandora]

thanks

[Visitor7]

That's the way I do it, and it comes out perfect.

[Bloom]

I reckon you will need to add yellow to get green, the icing will only have a very pale yellow tint. And my DH requests cakes too: last year it was in the shape of the arc de triomphe as we'd just got back from Paris and the year before it was a rocket too!

Don't forget to put sparklers on around the base so when they are lit it looks like the rocket is taking off!

[Danni]

how cool!!!! I can't wait to see how you've done it!

[Trish]

I used butter cream when I made Abbey's cake, because I wanted pale pink and not a salmon colour, as it would have turned out, I substituted half of the butter from copha. I found a recipe that suggested using all copha, but I just couldn't do that. LOL. So half and half it was, the colour turned out great (much paler than butter cream) and the taste was yummy too!