KITCHEN IDEAS WITH THE COLOR RED
hi guys i'm jenn johns and this is buttercream basics! i 'm going to show you how to pipe and make perfect red buttercream. one of the most common questions i get is how to make red of buttercream you may have found yourself using an entire bottle or an entire jar of the red coloring and it only ends up to be pink
you've got half of the thing figured out already because you want to start with a pink base in order to make your red nice and vibrant so i'm going to be using this deep pink americolor gel and the other thing that's really important is to use gel paste so i'm just going to squeeze a little bit into their now what i've got in my bowl here is two cups of
my vanilla buttercream it's got regular vanilla and it's got real butter in it with a little bit pins yellow and i've got the pink in there and i'm just going to mix the pink in now so the pink is mixed in nice and it's a beautiful color of pink which is great if that's what you're going for and it's probably likely the color that
you're going to get if you are finding yourself using a bottle of the liquid food coloring now when you add in liquid food coloring you're likely to change the consistency of your buttercream by that extra liquid is going to make it extra runny so what's nice about the gel paste is that it is a really thick and concentrated consistency and it's that
gel so it's not going to change the way that your buttercream is going to hold together so once you've got this nice beat pink as our start you're going to need to add less red than you would if we were going to be starting with that regular plain vanilla color you just want to take your coloring here and for this one i'm using super red there are
many varieties of red who would have thought that but there are and i've had success with super red and it's actually the only color of red that i ever used so highly recommend that again we're just going to put a squirt into our buttercream here and we're going to mix that in as well so you can see the color now is still
relatively coral it's a more red than would be if we didn't have that pink base but we're going to add a little bit more the other thing that's important to know about when you're working with gel paste is that you need to let your icing sit for like an hour in order for that color to deepen because it does deepen and
color gradually over time so i'm just going to do one more square here and we should be good to go so once the red color has deepened its this beautiful color i'm going to take some of it out with a spatula and then here in this jar what i've done is just lined a piping bag with a 1m tip and i'm just putting it into the jar for
stability so i can swipe my buttercream into the bag and then you can take it out and then you just want to kind of reverse the bag which he has their pull this off and then pinch it off push that buttercream down towards the bottom of the tip and then i like to twist the bag and then secure it with a piping bag elastic i'm just wrapping that around
there and it just secured that there c don't have to worry about the buttercream squeezing out the end of the bag now onto a cupcake what i like to do for a traditional swirl with this tip is i just like to start with a big dollop in the center and that's going to help fill the height of the cupcake and then i'm going to go around the outside and
just work my way up and around the tip and you can see this beautiful buttercream coming out and it's a beautiful red. so i hope i've showed you that making red buttercream is actually pretty easy and there is no difficulty to it at all please make sure to subscribe to this channel and if you haven't done so already make sure you
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