Black Roses??

Decorating By PennySue Updated 29 May 2006 , 12:52pm by leily

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PennySue Posted 29 May 2006 , 1:18am
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I'm doing a cake for a 50th birthday party at my work. My co-workers are doing the party in black (What's so bad about 50?? I survived it just fine!) Anyway, I'll be using licorice for the sides but I though they would like black roses. Seems like a lot of black coloring. Any thoughts?

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Doug Posted 29 May 2006 , 1:20am
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black roses on a white background would be so very elegent.

(after all -- the true black rose is still the holy grail of all rose breeders everywhere)

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tirby Posted 29 May 2006 , 1:21am
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maybe you could start with a dark chocolate icing. Then you wouldnt need so much color.

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PennySue Posted 29 May 2006 , 1:22am
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Ooooh, I just thought of something. If I use chocolate bcf, I wouldn't have to put too much black in it would I? I think there is a tasteless black, just like the tasteless red color. That would work, wouldn't it?

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PennySue Posted 29 May 2006 , 1:23am
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I guess we were thinking on the same lines! Great minds and all that sort of thing! Thanks!

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kae133 Posted 29 May 2006 , 3:15am
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I had great success making black from chocolate icing....and you don't have to add too much coloring. I used regular color paste from Wilton's and it tasted just like chocolate. Good luck!

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TexasSugar Posted 29 May 2006 , 3:40am
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You could also spray the white roses with the black color spray. It will make the edges black and the rest a gray shade. icon_smile.gif

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Helendelk Posted 29 May 2006 , 3:53am
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For our xbox cake we used chocolate icing and used the tasteless black and worked great didnt take much to mix it either

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tastycakes Posted 29 May 2006 , 4:07am
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Hace you seen COllette's "Black and White" in her Art of Cake Decorating book? instead of flowers on top she used a nice "bow" out of shoestring licorice!

But it is always fun to see grown ups walking around with black teeth from the icing!

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leily Posted 29 May 2006 , 12:52pm
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Have you made fondant roses before? I would suggest making a sall batch of MMF and coloring it black before you add the sugar. Much quicker to color this way. Then just form up and allow to dry for a while.

HTH

Leily

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