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Now I'll show you how to color the fondant. You can use... for this cake we're going to
use a lot of different colors. So I'll show you how to add color to the fondant. The fondant
comes in white, usually like this. And then you buy some food colors. Now you don't want
to use the liquid food kinds. You want to use either a paste or a gel. And also in the
cake decorating department of a crafts store, or in a specialty baking store, you can get
the colors. And you just take... I have toothpick here. And you take the color and you kind
of rub it into the fondant. And then you want to knead it in, until it becomes a nice and
solid color. This color is copper color, and it's specified to be used for a light skin
tone. So we're making a cake that has a lot of people on it. And this is the color you
would use for a light skin tone people, and if you want to add more browns or change the
color, you can add to this other colors. As you knead it and stretch it you see that it
becomes a little bit stripy, and you want to continue that until it becomes solid. As
you knead it, you can see that it becomes stripy like this, and you just continue kneading
until you have a solid color. You may actually in some cases, want to have this sort of marbleized
stripy look, and at that point you could stop and use it. But for the skin tone I want it
to be a solid skin tone color.