How do you make gold colored icing?

Gold-Colored IcingCake decorating specialist stores sell products that make icing appear metallic if that is what you mean. For mixing the color gold, they can also provide paste, liquid and powder colors in many color shades.

If you have the cake decorators icing colorings one may come close to it by mixing: 1 part Christmas Red, 3 parts Sunset Orange, and 10 parts Lemon Yellow. But it will not have the metallic look.

Or you could just buy the food coloring called gold. You may or may not be able to purchase it with the metallic sheen. Edible gold is available at Sur La Table ($35 for 150 mg; 800/243-0852).

I have decorated cakes for a long time. The closest I have come to gold is canary yellow and a few drops of brown.

Or just mix a little orange, yellow for brightness, snd a slight brown, but be carefull on the brown. Too much or little = no. Make sure it's little for mistakes, you can add but can't take back.