Great question. 
I started with the chocolate frosting for black and it does come out perfect, but what if you don't want the chocolate taste? I have americolor colors and the black gets bitter tasting to me. I have seen other posters suggest just buying the Wilton's black frosting. I will probably do that for now on but it makes you wonder how they get such good-tasting black frosting. 
Does anyone have a good chocolate buttercream frosting recipe? I've made some buttercream and added cocoa powder with no specific amounts and it tasted horrible.. It even came out sort of crusty.. I am making a black and pink cake in a few weeks and chocolate is one of the frosting that they requested.. First they said brown and pink any flavor any kind.. NOW they say black and pink with at least one cake being chocolate.. Sooooo here I am trying to figure out how I am going to do this.. I first thought of all strawberry and adding a little bit of red dye to the cake mix to get a darker pink.. Then I was going to frost it all in buttercream icing dyed pink and use box fondant (now that we can get it already colored brown) decorations.. Now that I have to use chocolate icing I have to change my plans just a bit.. Thanks!
I went to a restaurant supply wholesale store last night and found some coloring by ATECO. They are called spectrum colors. When I tried to make black icing for the mouth of a bear, it turned out wonderfully. Also, no bitter taste. If you can find them, they are wonderful colors to use.
Great question.
I started with the chocolate frosting for black and it does come out perfect, but what if you don't want the chocolate taste? I have americolor colors and the black gets bitter tasting to me. I have seen other posters suggest just buying the Wilton's black frosting. I will probably do that for now on but it makes you wonder how they get such good-tasting black frosting.
I would say airbrushing would be the only way...Black icing is very messy too. The Wilton spray colors would be the way to go if you can't use chocolate to start!!
If you do end up airbrushing the cake...It has to be done in layers. If you try to put all the color on at one time, your cake will look wet. I had to do a cake with really bold airbrush colors and I can't even remember how many times I sprayed that darn cake... It's worth taking the extra time to let each layer of color dry before putting on the next.
Good luck!!
I use Dawn's buttercream icings. They are premixed and I really like the red and black. They don't have a bitter taste and I use them mixed with white to lighten the color for pinks and grays. I currently buy dawns at my local cake supply store.
Does anyone have a good chocolate buttercream frosting recipe? I've made some buttercream and added cocoa powder with no specific amounts and it tasted horrible.. It even came out sort of crusty..
I've gotten good results just mixing buttercream with melted chocolate.
Really funny to be posting in this thread. I went searching yesterday for how to make black icing and that's how I discovered this site !!!
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