How to colour edible rice/wafer paper?

Question

I'm thinking about getting on with my Christmas Cakes and this year, for a change, I thought I'd like to do some quilling on the cake using edible rice/wafer paper.  The only problem is that it's very difficult (well, impossible really) to find strongly coloured wafer paper.  I can only get it in pastel shades which are a bit too subtle for a Christmas cake where I need strong reds and greens to give it that Christmassy feel.

Does anyone know how I'd go about dying whole sheets of wafter paper a strong red or green?  As you may know, just colouring on the sheets with food colouring pens  won't do because, with quilling, it's the edges of the paper that are on show.

Thanks in advance for any help or advice.

Ellie · Accepted Answer

You can't use the edible rice paper.  The quilling done on cakes is done with fondant which has been rolled to a very thin quill shape....then shaped on the cake.  The rice paper would not twist into shape like what you need.

If I were going to color rice paper, I would use the powder food colors.

desiree Jödden · Answer

The wafer sheets are very thin,just colour the filling/cream.you can cook rice with root beet (that gives the nice red colour to cheap fruit yogurts) or wood ruff syrup or frambose syrup, or put cherries or frambozes in blender  and mix with cream or cooked rice,for a nice yellow ("gold") use saffron.I prefer to do it natural if possible,only blue isn't possible.

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