I usually start with chocolate buttercream. To start with a brown color really helps me!!! I hope this helps you!!!
Shelleylynn
Try making brown first....then add your black. One thing I like to do is mix all of your leftover icing together when your finished with a cake. Usually it makes a nice deep color like green or brown. Refrigerate your icing and then when you make your next cake you have a good base color to make black by adding a smaller amount of coloring to it. Works great for me everytime!
This works for me. I mix Wilton Juniper green and then when it's a deep green I add Wilton black.
When I have just a tiny bit of black detail work, I use canned fudge frosting tinted with Wilton black. It's very easy to get black.
However, I had a lot of black on a cake last week, so I started with homemade chocolate buttercream. For some reason, the wilton black would NOT get it black enough (just dark grey).
So I added in more black, wilton moss green, and wilton royal blue, and the shade finally came out perfect. I think I learned that in a wilton class.
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