Take a deep breath - we are here with a quick and easy guide to help you learn exactly which ones you should be using! A final positive would be that the colour was easy to clean off my hands with soap and water and did not stain like other colours.

Many of us might remember the frozen pizzas we ate as children and teens, such as the basic Margherita with a sparse layer of cheese and a flavourless tomato base – but frozen pizzas have come a long way since then!

You can also choose Tatranil Spectral Colouring Pastes, with the only difference from the standard varieties being that they don’t contain the artificial food colour, Tartrazine.

I didn't need too much to get a beautiful bright colour in the buttercream but found I needed a lot more to colour the white fondant icing. Available in many different colours, our Colour Splash Food Colouring Gels are recommended for colouring royal icing, sugar paste, buttercream, marzipan, model paste and cake mixes. They are easy to use and are a great option if you are looking to introduce your children to colouring and decorating sugar paste, marzipan and royal icing. There are a couple of other non-vegan ingredients that are used to dye foods, like Tyrian purple and squid ink, but they are not at all common in the UK and I haven’t seen any baking food colouring brands that use these ingredients.A superb choice for newbies and experienced bakers alike, the consistency of Wilton's gel makes mixing colour into your batter effortless. Just a small amount of these highly concentrated gels produces instant colour, making them a great long-lasting addition to kitchen cupboards. i prefer these over the high end brands and other makes as they are gels rather than the pastes ive used previously they give excellent colour which is vibrant and not dull like the other leaders on the market.

We have already mentioned these earlier in the guide and their suitability for use with high fat ingredients such as chocolate and cake batter mixes. All products in our Colour Splash pearl food colouring powder range are completely edible and leave a subtle lustre effect on cake decorations, bakes, icing, pastes and chocolate. Easy to use,the gel consistency of this product can be used to brighten up your cake decoration, without the worry of it watering down your icing! They are available in a variety of lustrous colours and can be used with sugar paste, modelling paste and flower paste. Protein bars used to be either as dense and chewy as old leather or dry, flavourless granola energy bars.Sadly, this one doesn't come up to the subtle clarity of Wilton's although the initial colour is better than other food colourings in Hobbycraft. Nowadays there is a great variety available for us to purchase here in the UK, from Japanese Nissin instant ramen to spicy Korean noodles and other options from Singapore, Thailand, and Indonesia. To ensure your icing is as white as possible and not an off-white colour, which can be the case in some instances, Sugarflair Superwhite is a powder which can be added to icing. Also, the excess water from the colouring could potentially ruin your recipe, so be careful to avoid adding too much!

This best quality food colouring can be used to colour icing, fondant, cake batter, chocolate, modelling paste, flower paste, decorations and much more. Between applications, leave the batter for 10 to 15 minutes to develop and repeat until you have reached your desired shade. Available in popular colours, Sugarflair NatraDi Natural Food Colouring Pastes enable you to add colour to icing and cake mixes without using artificial ingredients.The highly concentrated gels add instant colour to icing and come in an easy-to-use squeezy tubes that are perfect for cake decorators of all skill levels! Powdered food colourings produce the deepest and most saturated colour and since they don't contain any liquid, they also have the longest shelf-life!