Hi All,
I know most of you probably use americolor or paste colors when coloring icing or fondant but here is my dilema. I forgot that its my brothers birthday today so I was going to slap a cake together and do a FBCT Harley logo so I need black and I do not have any black to add to chocolate and the cake store is closed on sundays. So my question is can I get a decent black by using food coloring that you would buy at a grocery store? Of coarse I would start with a chocolate BC but then what would I do, add a bunch of blue or green to make it darker? Has anyone tried this?
I had a hard time getting the right shade of red once, and I bought a tube of the Betty Crocker frosting and mixed it with my frosting. It depends on what kind of frosting you are using but you could buy a tube of the black instead of adding tons and tons of black dye.
If they sell the Hersheys special dark cocoa at your grocery store, that gives you a really really dark brown, and to go from that to black isn't much of a leap, so that plus food coloring should get you there.
HTH,
Jenn
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