Bring your cake designs to life with the Wilton Set of 8 Essential Gel Food Colours – a go-to palette for every baker and sugarcrafter. These concentrated gel colours are perfect for tinting marzipan, SmartFlex, gum paste and other fondant and modelling pastes, giving you strong, even colour without watering down your mixture. When you need extra firmness and elasticity for detailed shaping, you can also add Tylo powder to your paste.

For painting details, simply mix a little colour with a small amount of alcohol and apply with a brush to fondant or modelling paste – ideal for adding shading, highlights, lettering and fine decorative touches. The colours can be blended together to create your own custom tones, or lightened with white to achieve softer pastel shades.

Wilton gel colours are a brilliant choice for decorating celebration cakes for children and adults alike, whether you’re aiming for an elegant theme or something fun and colourful. Use them to colour or paint sugarcraft elements for 3D figures, flowers, lace effects, bows, beads, pearls, animals, characters and more. You can also add colour to creams, sponge mixtures, and even macarons for a coordinated bake.

This great-value set includes 8 x 28 g pots (28.35 g each). Colours included:

• Golden Yellow – warm yellow
• Leaf Green – leafy green
• Royal Blue – royal blue
• Violet – purple
• Red-Red – red
• Ivory – ivory
• Pink – pink
• Black – black

Because these are highly concentrated gel food colours, you only need a small amount. It’s best to test your desired dosage on a small piece of mixture first, then build up the shade gradually. Colours can be mixed to create endless custom combinations.

Note: The colours Red-Red, Christmas Red and Black may affect the taste of the coloured mixture when used in larger amounts. For large red areas on a cake, it is recommended to use Red No-Taste. If you want to achieve black, we recommend starting with a dark fondant base (e.g. chocolate), so you’ll need less black colouring to reach a deep shade.

For smaller quantities, you can of course choose one of the fully coloured sugar fondants.

FAQs

• What can Wilton Set of 8 Essential Gel Food Colours be used for?
  Use it to colour fondant, modelling paste, marzipan, gum paste, creams, sponge mixtures and macarons, or to paint details on sugarcraft decorations.
• How do I use the gel colours without overdoing it?
  Start with a tiny amount (a toothpick tip is often enough), knead or mix thoroughly, then add more gradually until you reach the desired shade.
• Can I mix the colours together?
  Yes. The gels blend well, so you can create custom shades, and you can also lighten colours by mixing with white.
• How do I paint with the colours?
  Mix a small amount of gel colour with a little alcohol to make a paint, then apply with a brush to fondant or modelling paste.
• Will the colours change the taste?
  In larger amounts, Red-Red, Christmas Red and Black may influence flavour. For big red areas, choose Red No-Taste; for black, start with a dark base to use less colour.
• How much is in the pack?
  The set contains 8 pots, each 28.35 g (approx. 28 g), for a total net weight of 345 g.

Ready to colour your next bake with confidence? Add Wilton Set of 8 Essential Gel Food Colours to your basket and create show-stopping cakes, cupcakes and sugarcraft decorations with ease.