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How to Mix gel-based food icing colors for cake decorating

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Remember when you were five and you had a blue crayon and a yellow crayon but all you really wanted was a green crayon? Just as you would mix colors in coloring and any other artistic medium, you sometimes need to mix icing colors in cake decorating.

Get the exact icing color you want by checking out this video on how to mix gel-based food icing colors.

Gabrielle Feuersinger, owner of San Francisco's Cake Coquette, recommends mixing different gel-based food colorings for variety and depth.

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