Black Fondant - Colour It Or Paint It???
Decorating By PurplePetunia Updated 14 Nov 2016 , 5:37pm by antonia74
Thanks again to everyone for all of your wonderful suggestions.
As I said before, I don't have easy access to Americolours, neither do I have an airbrush, and lucky me, my local cake shop that carries CakeCraft colours, didn't have black!!
Anyhow, I tried with the Wilton gel paste and that only gave me dark green fondant, even after adding more after letting it sit over night (twice!).
So I went back to my cake shop and they gave me some powdered colouring and that did the trick!! 
Thanks again to everyone!
Wonderful job on your cakes, boonenatie. And thanks Antonia74 and Liis for sharing your pictures too - they're both great!!
Thanks again to everyone for all of your wonderful suggestions.
As I said before, I don't have easy access to Americolours, neither do I have an airbrush, and lucky me, my local cake shop that carries CakeCraft colours, didn't have black!!
Anyhow, I tried with the Wilton gel paste and that only gave me dark green fondant, even after adding more after letting it sit over night (twice!).
So I went back to my cake shop and they gave me some powdered colouring and that did the trick!!
Thanks again to everyone!
Wonderful job on your cakes, boonenatie. And thanks Antonia74 and Liis for sharing your pictures too - they're both great!!
Kiddo, were you using McCall's fondant by any chance?
I make my own fondant, and when I need black I make chocolate fondant and add black powdered food colour, and then gel if I need more. You just replace come of the sugar for cocoa powder, and add a bit more shortening and glycerin to the recipe, to make up for the astringency of the cocoa. It works perfectly and is not sticky at all.
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