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Sainsbury's has a fairly good range of basic stuff - pre-rolled white icing, food colouring, lots of bits to stick on etc. If you're not trying to meet demanding kids requirements, it may suffice.


Does anyone know if you can paint food colouring onto white icing rather than getting it pre-coloured?

Well...



You could buy a toy tractor in green...

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/418Ss4RcsIL._SL500_AA300_.jpg



Then make a "green field" cake, & the tractor could be ploughing the field, revealing the chocolate cake underneath


You can buy the tractor and plastic fences ect, at Mr Greens in Dulwich village


He keeps the toy after




You get to make an easier but great looking cake



W**F

Cake update:


The green tractor turned out ok (well my son seemed to like it which was the main thing!. I used green and black gel colours from lakeland in buttercream icing and they worked really well.


Thanks for all the tips. Will get more organised and order stuff for next time!

  • 4 weeks later...

Hi !


I always use sugar flair colouring paste. You can buy a box in all different colours from www.cakecraftworld.co.uk or just buy individual colours. Mix the paste into your white sugarpaste to get your desired

colour. Only liquid colouring turns the icing sticky and soft. Paste is ideal to make little sugar models or colour a whole block of icing.


Tips for next time maybe ?

  • 4 months later...

Just to add to this I am yet to find a local cake craft shop that is local. Is there one ?!


However you may all be interested to know that the Green Cuisine Cook Shop - Lordship Lane has been

a fantastic little find for me. They have baking tins, hundreds of cookie cutters, cupcake decorating

equipment and baking tins for hire. Yippee !


Ashamed to admit I only had my first visit a few weeks ago but I will be a regular now ;-)

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