You need to buy pink paste food colour - liquid colour is no good.

Sugarflair do a pink colour but it is a bit salmony pink - I would always go for squires kitchen rose paste colour.

This will give you a pale bubblegum pink, right through to a shocking pink.

With paste colour you literally only need to dip a cocktail stick into the colour and add to the sugarpaste and knead and it will turn it a very vibrant shade.

Thankyou for the helpful guide to icing daisy

Bellavita - Do you mean this?
Sugarflair Colours - Spectral Paste - 25g in pink?
I cant link to it directly annoyingly!

Persumably 25g will colour well over 1kg of fondant icing - which I did buy at tesco yes

daisy - squires kitchen is a very good site.

There are a few different products really.

There's ready to roll icing like the 500g quantity one (it may be worth an email to them to find out if there's a substitute available or whether they're expecting new stock in the next day or so).

And there's a sort of sophisticated colouring which comes in a small glass pot usually - it's a bit like poster paint in consistency and you add more or less of it to white rollout icing depending on the shade of the colour you're after. Have a look at Squires Kitchen on the site in the same area.

The flower paste is a different consistency, a bit like ready to roll icing, but with a different make up. It's designed for moulding flower petals and so on.

There's so much on the site that I'm sure they'll have something that will help you with the cake. Every time I look at it, I find something else.

Yurtgirl - you can buy ready made white fondant at Tesco (get mine from there) and I colour mine myself. You just need to get some SugarFlare pink paste, add, kneed, roll it out and voila!

Pants that one is out of stock anyway!

Am I right in thinking there are two products available?

ready coloured icing, ready to use
And paste that you add to icing yourself

Daisydot - you are a marvel thankyou!
That is the cerise one you were talking about earlier yes?

So I could buy 2 packs of 500g cheaply

Persumably that is ready to use as it is
Can I add white to it to make a paler version of the same?

For the cake you're doing, maybe some of the ready to roll sugar paste from M&B London might be easiest. They have a huge range of icing and it comes in a decent quantity.

Have a look a bit further down the list for M&B.