Need Quick Help ~ Need Gray, Getting Blue-Grey!
Decorating By shalderman Updated 8 Jul 2007 , 6:39pm by lionladydi
I'm working on a cake right now and I need to make grey icing. I'm using WIlton's black added to icing that is 3/4 shortening 1/4 butter. But when I add it, its this blue grey color. Unfortunately I have silver pearl dust painted things to stick on this and the color shade difference is quite obvious! How do I get the blue out! I'm kicking myself for not buying the americolor black I looked at yesterday at teh cake store (which is a 45 min drive away) 
Thanks for any help anyone might have!!
About a a half hour now...looks like it might be LESS blue but still not sure if it will work yet with the silver. Gotta look at it in natural light I think.
take a small amount of your bluish icing and try this experiment - add a bunch of other colors - preferably dark ones. Just a little of each. Don't add purple or anything that has blue in it. Let it sit for a while and see if the blue dissipates.
How old is your jar of black color? In my experience, when black gets old, it takes on a violet or blue hue.
Thank you guys for your help! I don't know exactly how old my black is but not more than a year for sure... But I don't recall if that was something I bought in the last few months or last fall.
Anyway I found good old patience paid off and the blue ness of it faded over time. I ended up with a nice grey. Weird though how these colors morph like that. The pic with the grey icing should be in my pics folder soon 
Thanks again!
I had some chocolate icing one time that I wanted a deeper color. Don't know what possessed me to do it but I added some black to it. OMG I had the biggest container of the best gray colored icing you could ever want. I finally got tired of it sitting in the fridge and threw it out (you can only make so many roads on cakes 
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Sounds like your problem worked itself out. Don't you just love it when a plan comes together on its own.
Diane
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