How to Make Fall Harvest Frosting

Use our How to Make Fall Harvest Frosting formula to make delicious and gorgeous Fall Harvest colored frosting for Fall and Thanksgiving desserts.

We have made a lot of frosting in our lifetime.  We finally feel like we have figured out the exact food coloring formula for the perfect fall frosting colors – burgundy, sage, gold and orange.  Use these How to Make Fall Harvest Frosting directions with our delicious Best Buttercream Frosting to create bright and beautiful Fall and Thanksgiving desserts.

You will need:

• The Best Buttercream Frosting
• Wilton Color Right Food Coloring

We are big fans of this Wilton Color Right Food Coloring system.  For us it has been worth the investment.  You have eight shades of food coloring that you can combine to make any color in the rainbow.  But we also like Americolor Liquid Gel Food Coloring.

 

How to Make Fall Harvest Burgundy Frosting

It took a lot of trial and error for us to figure out how to turn buttercream frosting into a pretty shade of burgundy. Most of the red food coloring we tried over the years resulted in a red that was too pink.  We’ve never had that problem with the Wilton Color Right Food Coloring.  You get bright and deep colors without having to use a whole bottle of food coloring.

1. Grab your bottles of Brown, Crimson, Red and Orange Wilton Color Right Food Coloring.
2. Make a batch of our Best Buttercream Frosting. (A single batch will give you approximately 2 1/2 cups of frosting.)
3. Add 8 drops of Crimson food coloring and mix the food coloring with a spoon (as opposed to using the mixer).
4. Add 1 drop of Red, 1 drop of Brown and 1/2 drop of Orange and mix by hand.

That is all there is to making a deep burgundy frosting that is perfect for Fall desserts. And remember, frosting always darkens a shade or two over time.  In the bottom two pictures above, you can see how the red color deepened over night.

 

How to Make Fall Harvest Sage Frosting

Green is tricky. There are so many different shades, so many combinations of Yellow and Blue to try to get the perfect one. Sage has more blue than a bright Christmas green for instance.  We’ve tried many different food colorings and color combinations but we think we’ve got the perfect mix for a Fall Sage frosting.

1. You will need your blue, brown and yellow bottles of  Wilton Color Right Food Coloring.
2. Make a batch of our Best Buttercream Frosting. (A single batch will give you approximately 2 1/2 cups of frosting.)
3. Add 6 drops of Yellow food coloring and mix the food coloring with a spoon (as opposed to using the mixer).
4. Add 2 drops of Blue food coloring and stir by hand. The blue food coloring is going take you from yellow to green. Add a small drop of Brown to darken the color and get this pretty shade of Sage.

Again, frosting always darkens over time.  In the bottom two pictures above, you can see how the sage color deepened over night.

How to Make Fall Harvest Gold Frosting

Gold is Yellow plus Orange.  Definitely the easiest of the bunch!

1. You will need your yellow and orange bottles of  Wilton Color Right Food Coloring.
2. Make a batch of our Best Buttercream Frosting. (A single batch will give you approximately 2 1/2 cups of frosting.)
3. Add 6 drops of Yellow food coloring and mix the food coloring with a spoon (as opposed to using the mixer).
4. Finally add 1 drop of Orange food coloring and mix.  If it is not quite the gold color you are looking for … add a 2nd small drop of Orange.

 

How to Make Fall Harvest Orange Frosting

You need a little creativity to get a deep pretty Fall Orange frosting color … plain orange food coloring isn’t going to get your there.  Not to worry, we have a tried and true formula that always gets the job done.

1. You will need your orange, yellow and red bottles of  Wilton Color Right Food Coloring.
2. Make a batch of our Best Buttercream Frosting. (A single batch will give you approximately 2 1/2 cups of frosting.)
3. Add 4 drops of Orange food coloring and mix the food coloring with a spoon (as opposed to using the mixer).
4. Now add 4 drops of Yellow Food coloring and 1 drop of Red. Mix by hand.

Again, frosting always darkens over time.  In the bottom two pictures above, you can see how the orange color deepened over night.

Fall Harvest Frosting couldn’t be easier with our Best Buttercream Frosting recipe and our tried and true food coloring formulas.