Last Updated on February 16, 2023
Today, we’re going to be taking a look at how to make navy blue fondant and how to use your navy blue fondant in a cake recipe. While it’s relatively easy to find fondant in the primary and secondary colors, if you’re looking for a different shade of a certain color, this can be quite difficult. While there are a few brands that offer navy blue fondant ready-made, it’s easier to make your own. In fact, making your own navy blue fondant requires very few ingredients. Let’s take a closer look at how to make navy blue fondant.
What is Navy Blue Fondant?
Fondant (sometimes known as fondant icing) is a type of icing that’s used in baking. It’s most often used to make cake decorations or other decorative pieces in baking. It’s sometimes used to help to sculpt cakes too. The main ingredients in fondant are sugar, water, and gelatin. In colored fondants (such as navy blue), they’ll typically be colorings added to the list of ingredients too.
Most fondant comes pre-packaged in a ready-to-roll format. This is the easiest way to use it for budding bakers and sugar crafters.
Ingredients in Navy Blue Fondant
The ingredients in navy blue fondant can vary depending on if it’s store-bought or homemade. If making it yourself, it typically contains the following ingredients:
- white fondant (made from sugar, water, gelatin, shortening, and glycerol)
- food coloring
However, if you buy navy blue fondant premade, it usually contains the following ingredients:
- sugar
- glucose syrup
- palm oil
- vegetable glycerine
- mono and diglycerides of fatty acids
- anthocyanins
- brilliant black
- tragacanth gum
- potassium sorbate
- natural flavoring
Nutritional Information of Navy Blue Fondant
You may be curious as to the nutritional value when it comes to navy blue fondant. Each 100g of fondant contains the following:
- Calories: 373
- Fat: 0g
- Cholesterol: 0mg
- Sodium: 11mg
- Potassium: 4mg
- Carbohydrate: 93g
- Dietary Fiber: 0g
- Sugar: 89g
- Protein: 0g
How to Make Navy Blue Food Coloring
If you’re looking for a way to make navy blue food coloring to use on your fondant, it’s actually relatively easy. It’s important that you’re using coloring suitable for foods. While navy blue is a popular color in baking, it’s not one of the base colors that you’ll typically find. For this reason, it’s best to mix equal parts blue, red, and pink base colors together to make a navy blue food coloring to color your fondant.
Can You Use Food Coloring on Fondant?
Absolutely! In fact, using food coloring on fondant is the quickest and easiest way to make your fondant the color of your choosing. However, if you’re working with darker colors, be sure not to stain anything important. One thing about colored fondant: the coloring tends to end up everywhere!
How to Color Fondant
If you’re wondering how to color fondant, we’re here to help and it couldn’t be easier. Now we’ve made our navy blue food coloring, we can get started. Let’s take a closer look.
Wilton Icing Colors 12-Piece Gel Food Coloring Set
Ingredients
The ingredients you’ll need for this recipe are:
- navy blue food coloring (see above for how to make this color)
- white fondant icing
Recipe – How To Make Navy Blue Fondant
Now all you need to do is:
Step 1: Add Small Amounts of Color
Before you begin, you need to make your fondant soft. The best way to do this is to roll the fondant in your hands to make it more flexible and make a ball shape. Using a skewer or toothpick, add a small amount of navy blue food coloring in drops. Place several spots onto the fondant.
Step 2: Mix the Color – How To Make Navy Blue Fondant
To mix the color into the fondant, you’ll need to knead it. When doing this (especially with dark colors), it’s best to use gloves as your hands are very likely to stain.
Step 3: Keep Kneading
This may take several minutes, but keep kneading the color into your fondant until it reaches the desired color and is evenly distributed. It’s worth noting that if the color is too light, you can add more drops of food coloring, and if the color is too dark, you can add additional white fondant.
Navy Blue Tile Cake Recipe
Now we know how to color fondant, you may want to try it out on a simple cake. This recipe is inspired by one from Wilton’s. Let’s take a closer look.
Ingredients
The ingredients you’ll need for this recipe are:
- cake (use your own recipe)
- buttercream frosting
- navy blue fondant
- white fondant
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Recipe
Now all you need to do is:
Step 1: Make Cake
Before you begin decorating, make three layers of cake using a cake recipe that you love. Remove from oven once baked and leave to cool completely.
Step 2: Make Buttercream – How To Make Navy Blue Fondant
Using your favorite buttercream recipe and flavoring, make your buttercream. Place the buttercream between each layer of cake and stack your cake. Use the buttercream on the top of the cake and make it smooth.
Step 3: Color Fondant
Color your fondant using the recipe above. Once you’ve colored your fondant navy blue, you’ll need to use a square cutter to cut out around 112 squares. Once you’ve cut all of the squares, place them around your cake in two rows; one at the top and one at the bottom.
How To Make Navy Blue Fondant: A Guide
Ingredients
How to Color Fondant
- navy blue food coloring see above for how to make this color
- white fondant icing
Navy Blue Tile Cake Recipe
- cake use your own recipe
- buttercream frosting
- navy blue fondant
- white fondant
Instructions
How to Color Fondant
- Add Small Amounts of Color – Before you begin, you need to make your fondant soft. The best way to do this is to roll the fondant in your hands to make it more flexible and make a ball shape. Using a skewer or toothpick, add a small amount of navy blue food coloring in drops. Place several spots onto the fondant.
- Mix the Color – To mix the color into the fondant, you’ll need to knead it. When doing this (especially with dark colors), it’s best to use gloves as your hands are very likely to stain.
- Keep Kneading – This may take several minutes, but keep kneading the color into your fondant until it reaches the desired color and is evenly distributed. It’s worth noting that if the color is too light, you can add more drops of food coloring, and if the color is too dark, you can add additional white fondant.
Navy Blue Tile Cake Recipe
- Make Cake – Before you begin decorating, make three layers of cake using a cake recipe that you love. Remove from oven once baked and leave to cool completely.
- Make Buttercream – Using your favorite buttercream recipe and flavoring, make your buttercream. Place the buttercream between each layer of cake and stack your cake. Use the buttercream on the top of the cake and make it smooth.
- Color Fondant – Color your fondant using the recipe above. Once you’ve colored your fondant navy blue, you’ll need to use a square cutter to cut out around 112 squares. Once you’ve cut all of the squares, place them around your cake in two rows; one at the top and one at the bottom.
- Finish – Roll out your white fondant and cut out around 450 leaves. Now, using a damp brush, carefully add the leaves to your cake. Attach four leaves for every one navy blue fondant square. Enjoy!
Nutrition
Conclusion – How To Make Navy Blue Fondant
I hope this post has helped you to become more familiar with how to make navy blue fondant. While you can now readily buy navy blue fondant, it’s super easy to make your own!
Do you have any tips or tricks when it comes to coloring fondant? If so, please feel free to let me know in the comments below. Sharing is caring!
