Buttercream Disaster Ii Help Wilton Black Turned Icing Green
Decorating By punkyf Updated 17 Apr 2013 , 8:56pm by Annabakescakes
Just made another batch of buttercream with hi ratio shortening. It turned out wonderful. I then put wilton black color in it to make grey and it turned green. How in the world can I get this icing to be grey? I'm making an adding machine cake and if things don't work out it may be a green machine. Please Help!!!!
I somewhat solved my problem. I remixed some of the white icing from the Buttercream Disaster Post that had sit on the counter for a few days and added a spoonful of the hi ratio shortening. It turned out pretty good. Acceptable. I then mixed it into the green icing that was suppose to be grey and it is a lot better. At least it looks more grey not. Whew! Thought I was going to have green adding machine.
For a good black, I find that starting with a chocolate frosting works best. If you don't want to use chocolate maybe just add some brown to the 'green/gray'. It might have the same effect and give you a better black. Don't know, just a thought. Good luck!
I have had the same problem. Made hand cuffs once that had a green tint to them. Yuk! Another problem I had with black colored bc, it would bleed red on white bc when i was using it for writing. I have found when I need black frosting that I first start with chocolate buttercream and add black gel color. It works great and no more bleeding.
Hey Peg818, where do you find black cocoa?
You can get black cocoa from the King Arthur Catalogue.
I doubt it was something you did. I've had the same issue--trying to do a silver so I wanted a grey fondant base. Used Wilton black. And I got PURPLE. Per Wilton, it "takes a lot of colors to get black, so you should have stirred the color before using it." I did that lady, and that bottle gave me a lovely shade of purple. So, no more Wilton colors for me. No way, no how!
I found this thread as I had the same problem last night. Unfortunately the responses didn't help much. BUT I did learn something about the color wheel. The correct answer is to add red. It worked beautifully. I too will be switching away from Wilton colors.
AAgreed, on the Americolor black! Decopac isn't bad, either.
I have actually never had it happen with Wilton black or Americolor black...but I just had it happen with Americolor super black. I added half the bottle to half a pound of icing...and it was army green. When I added a little water to my frosting (about a Tablespoon or two, it seemed to release the black magically. Go figure. For what it's worth to someone else out there...
I have actually never had it happen with Wilton black or Americolor black...but I just had it happen with Americolor super black. I added half the bottle to half a pound of icing...and it was army green. When I added a little water to my frosting (about a Tablespoon or two, it seemed to release the black magically. Go figure. For what it's worth to someone else out there...
That is weird! Thank you for sharing though, I use that color, so if it is every Army green, I will water it down! lol that really is crazy!
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