How to Make Christmas Frosting

Use our How to Make Christmas Frosting formula to make delicious, bright and beautiful red green and white frosting for Christmas and Holiday desserts.

We have made a lot of frosting in our lifetime.  We feel like we have finally figured out the exact food coloring formula for the perfect red, green and white Christmas frosting colors.  Use these How to Make Christmas Frosting directions with our delicious Best Buttercream Frosting to create bright and beautiful Holiday desserts.

You will need:

• The Best Buttercream Frosting
• Wilton Color Right Food Coloring – Crimson
• Wilton Color Right Food Coloring – Red
• Wilton Color Right Food Coloring – Blue
• Wilton Color Right Food Coloring – Yellow

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.  The Super Red gel is also good for making a pretty Christmas Red.  And Americolor Forest Green is a good choice for a Christmas Green.

 

How to Make Christmas Red Frosting

It took a lot of trial and error for us to figure out how to turn buttercream frosting into a pretty shade of bright red. Most of the red food coloring we tried over the years resulted in a red that was really 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 Crimson and Red 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 14 drops of Red food coloring and mix the food coloring with a spoon (as opposed to using the mixer).
4. Add 6 drops of Crimson food coloring and stir by hand.

That is all there is to making a bright Christmas red frosting that is perfect for Christmas 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 Christmas Green Frosting

A Christmas Green frosting is not as hard to achieve as other colors … the slightly yellow-ish tint from the buttercream frosting is a good base to build on.

1. You will need your yellow and blue 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 12 drops of Yellow food coloring and mix the food coloring with a spoon (as opposed to using the mixer).
4. Add 4-5 drops of Blue food coloring and stir by hand. Start with 3 drops and see what shade of green you have.  Then add more blue, one drop at a time.  The remaining two drops should be on the smaller side.  The frosting will get too blue very fast.

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

 

How to make Christmas White Frosting

Super easy … just make a batch of our Best Buttercream Frosting.  If you need even whiter frosting … try using Clear Vanilla Extract instead of regular vanilla.

 

Red, Green and White Christmas Frosting couldn’t be easier with our Best Buttercream Frosting recipe and our tried and true food coloring formulas.