What To Use To Make Black Fondant?
Decorating By ramie7224 Updated 17 Oct 2009 , 4:44pm by MrsNancyB1
I know this is too late for you now but here is my advice for what it's worth!
I HATE trying to get black in fondant or buttercream! So I cheat!! 
I buy a 2# tub of black fondant to have on hand and I keep a couple of tubes of black Wilton icing. That way I'm covered and don't have to sweat trying to get a true black color. I can add piping gel to the Wilton black to write with and all's good in my cake world!!
It is easier to make black from chocolate fondant. Otherwise, it really does take a lot of color. If you add the color before the powdered sugar, sometimes it mixes better.
I just made it 2 days ago, but I started with chocolate MMF. I still had to use about half of the jar of Wilton black gel, but I *did* achieve the dark black I was going for.
FTR, I was going to buy a 2lb bucket of satin ice too, but here's the way I figured it cost wise. Even if I color with an entire jar of black, that will cost $1.69 in color. That saved me the $20 from buying the black premade. Kneading in the color wasn't even that time consuming, because the more color I added the more pliable the fondant became. So it was a quick process overall...I think it took me about 20 minutes total. 
GL!
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