[nursemeow]

Hi there;

I want to use a regular professional icing on a bday cake I am making today (I love the supersweetness), however, I am covering a chocolate cake, any ideas for a color scheme for a girl's cake that will cover the chocolate cake well?

[Breton Beats]

What do you mean by professional icing. Professionals use a whole bunch of different kinds of icings. I frequently cover chocolate cake with white buttercream so color doesn't really matter.

Professional style buttercream aren't all that sweet. More buttery.

Something to keep in mind, if you do make a buttercream or fat based icing. You can't use the food coloring that you buy in the grocery store. I tried that recently for my son's cake. I made an italian buttercream like we do here in the bakery, but I wasn't thinking (since in the bakery we don't use any food coloring) and I added those colorings. They are water based and did not mix well with the butter. I used almost a whole bottle and still got very pale colors and you could see drops of it in the frosting.

But to answer your question. I think that both pink and lavendar go will with chocolate.

[Erik]

Originally Posted by Breton Beats

You can't use the food coloring that you buy in the grocery store. I tried that recently for my son's cake. I made an italian buttercream like we do here in the bakery, but I wasn't thinking (since in the bakery we don't use any food coloring) and I added those colorings. They are water based and did not mix well with the butter. I used almost a whole bottle and still got very pale colors and you could see drops of it in the frosting.

We would sometimes use airbrush colors in our it. buttercream when I was in school, but you really had to work it in (usually with an offset spatula and a flat surface). Not something you could reasonably do for a large batch!

[tessa]

you can get professional colours for icing that are specially for that purpose, they come in gels, or powders
Americolor is very good , and so is sugarflare
with the gel colours you dont need much , start off with some on a tooth pick then just add more to get the colour you need
I think purple or pink would be nice for a little girl, if its a bigger girl then what ever her favourite colours would look good. Do you have a nice buttercream recipe that your using. If you need help finding a supplier let me know where you are and i can maybe find somewhere in your area