Gel food colour is a highly concentrated form of food colouring that has a gel-like consistency. It's commonly used in baking and decorating because of its intense pigmentation and ability to colour foods without adding too much liquid. This is especially important in recipes where maintaining the texture or consistency is crucial, such as icing, fondant, or dough.
Key Features:
Vibrant colours: A small amount goes a long way.
Thicker consistency: Won’t water down mixtures.
Ideal for baking: Popular for colouring buttercream, royal icing, cake batter, and sugarpaste.
Often sold in tubes or small pots.
It differs from liquid food colouring, which is more diluted and better suited to lightly coloured mixtures or drinks, and from powder food colouring, which is completely dry and used for more specialised applications.
