Ateco 12-Color Food Coloring Kit

March 12, 2010 in Catering Products by | 5 comments

  • Deep color depth
  • Professional-quality food colorings
  • Squeeze bottle allows precise color control
  • 12-color range
  • Made in the U.S.

Product Description
Cake decorators will love this alternative to coloring drops and pastes. This gel is formulated with the necessary die concentration levels needed to achieve the most vibrant and brilliant colors available. Gel colors have a viscosity that offers the convenience of a pourable product, while making it easy to duplicate shades. Happily, gel color will not breakdown buttercream or non dairy icings as conventional liquid colors do. This set has just about any color you’ll ever need for all your decorating projects.Amazon.com Review
From Easter eggs to colorful cookies, Spectrum’s gel food colorings provide a wide range of decorative touches, with gorgeous colors and an enormous range of depth. Each color–black, blue, yellow, green, pink, red, teal, orange, fuchsia, violet, sky blue, and brown–comes in a soft-sided plastic squeeze bottle that allows you to add a drop of color at a time to frostings and fillings. Paste colors are much more intense than more common liquid colors, and these will last through hundreds of fanciful cookies, providing stunning, professional-looking results. –Jill Lightner

Ateco 12-Color Food Coloring Kit

  1. W. Zientek-Sico’s avatar

    W. Zientek-Sico (45 comments.) on March 12, 2010 at 1:34 am

    The spectra paste food colors are simply fantastic. They provide a depth and clarity of color that is impossible to achieve with liquid food colors. And the hues are beautiful and distinctive. The black and red, two colors which are very difficult to get when dying frostings, etc. are especially nice – probably the best of any manufacturer I have tried.

    For those who had questions, I am not 100% certain about the sizes, but if the set is the same as mine, the bottles are 3/4 ounce. While that might not seem like much, all you need is a dot of this thick gel paste at the end of a toothpick to color large amounts of material. So there is plenty of coloring ability in each bottle – many, many times more than a same sized liquid food color bottle.

    Highly recommended and at a really good price at the time of this review.
    Rating: 5 / 5

  2. gtigrl’s avatar

    gtigrl (1 comments.) on March 12, 2010 at 3:24 am

    I’m really glad I bought the Ateco 12-Color Food Coloring Kit. I found it searching for Black food coloring for my Halloween cookies. I just finished my Christmas cookies which turned out amazingly thanks to this food coloring kit.

    Each color is very bright and solid. The pastes mix very well with frosting (I have not used them for anything else yet). These are the nicest/brightest Christmas sugar cookies I have ever made.

    You don’t need to use a lot of coloring, just a drop or two, to get the perfect shade. As such, each bottle will last a long time.
    Rating: 5 / 5

  3. Cindy Elliott’s avatar

    Cindy Elliott (4 comments.) on March 12, 2010 at 5:17 am

    For those wondering, the bottles are each 3/4 oz. and they are a gel food color.

    Very vibrant, the amount goes far for me.
    Rating: 5 / 5

  4. Stephanie Manley’s avatar

    Stephanie Manley (7 comments.) on March 12, 2010 at 5:47 am

    These are easy to use, they do not make a mess, and offer vibrant colors. They do not taint what you are decorting as some colors can. I would highly recommend these to anyone to likes to decorate.
    Rating: 5 / 5

  5. Joanna Daneman’s avatar

    Joanna Daneman (5 comments.) on March 12, 2010 at 7:11 am

    I don’t know why anyone would ever use those little liquid food colors again after trying these pastes. The colors are more intense, and you can easily blend lovely shades for your icings.

    Martha Stewart shows wonderful seasonal cookies from time to time on her TV show. A simple eggwhite-sugar icing on cookies in exciting colors makes such a wonderful table decoration as well as great dessert for parties, teas and other events. These paste colors are a must if you like to make frosted cookies or party cakes.

    And these are especially fun if you have kids. A cookie-icing contest is a fun event for a birthday party, Christmas party or just a rainy afternoon.
    Rating: 5 / 5