I'm melting candy to make tires for my car cake for Father's Day and I have used up all the black candy coloring. Does anyone know if I can use icing color for candy? Please advise asap as the chocolate is cooling and will have to run out to get candy color if icing will not work. Thanks!
With icing, I've mixed in purple and blue, and brown and gotten a dark gray (not quite black) color, which may work for a tire color.
If you use a lot of regular color in your candy melts they will seize up and you will have a mess....with black I'd go buy some candy color for sure!
Thanks Kakesandkids! I found that out last night when I went ahead and used icing coloring to color my candy melts. Used the black candy coloring on dark cocoa melts to make black and nothing happened, no change in the color using the whole bottle. So I had plenty of black icing color and used that and you are right, it seized up. I am going to call Wilton this morning and ask them what I should do to make black tires for the car cake they have in the 2006 yearbook. Any thoughts, Kakesandkids?
Hi,
I looked at the cake....its on page 17 right? If you do not have access to any black candy color or flo coat then I would try one of these:
1. Use royal icing (can be colored with icing color) to make the tires. It may take a while to dry especially since it will need to be a little thick. I'd make extras to allow for breakage.
2. Make Candy Clay from the dark chocolate melts. Candy Clay accepts icing color much better than straight candy melts. Add in a little crisco to the clay and then the color and knead until you get the right consistency. If it gets too sticky toss in some cornstarch or powdered sugar. Shape them into tires. These will also take some time to dry.
Unfortunately, if the cake has to be finished today I don't think you will be able to get things dry enough.
Let me know if I can help anymore!
Hi kakesandkids, it's the car on page 15 and I don't need it until Saturday. I did send DH out last night and he picked up the last 2 bottles of black candy color so I'm okay there. The question is: should I start with the dark chocolate or the white chocolate to make the black tires? Please advise.
Thanks all for your comments...here's the scoop directly from Wilton. You CANNOT add icing coloring to candy melts as the icing coloring is waterbased and will not mix with the chocolate, i.e. the candy will seize up. To get black, Wilton customer service suggested starting with the white candy melts which I am on my way to the kitchen to try. Will let you know if that works!
Let us know how that turns out. I always start off with the dark chocolate melts so if its easier with the white that would be great!! Keep us posted!!
Just to let you know I did try tinting the white candy melts with the black candy color and IT WORKS! I only used about 1/2 a bag but used 2 bottles of the black candy tint...unfortunately you cannot buy the individual colors the way you can with the icing so now I have 3 sets of colors with all the black gone! My suggestion is to start with white not the chocolate if you want to make black as I never did achieve black using the chocolate candy melts. Best of luck!
Well, you can use the regular icing colors in a pinch, but you should add vegetable oil or shortening to the colored candy to melt it more.
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