Hi every one,
This weekend i made a cake with black satin ice.Here is the link to the cake:
http://www.cakecentral.com/cake-photo_1533824.html
the black fondant dried to an almost dark gray ( i don't use powdered sugar or corn starch to roll it out) Next time i would like it to be more black. Do u think I should add black color to it before rolling it out? Is there a better brand for black fondant?
Also I would have liked it to have a shiny look.I am thinking steamer maybe? Should i have used it on each tiered separately or after the cake is assembled? would it be okay to steam it after the white part is attached to the black one?or before attaching the drapery. Would steaming it make it bleed?
I'm sorry its long 
TIA!!!
I love you cake and the color looks fine to me. We've used the Satin Ice black fondant to make a cake of two tires and it the color came out exactly as it should have. Did you add anything into the color?
I don't see what you are when I look at your photo, and it looks great to me. I don't know in regard to steaming, but I myself would play it safe and if I were going to steam it, I'd do it before adding the other colors to it. Black does like to run.
You cake is beautiful and on the photo it looks dark brown. I have used black satin ice and mine is coal black, so black that I added some white fondant to it. I also used cornstarch when I rolled out the stripes for my cake and it was still as black as black can be and dried to a perfect black. How disappointing that this happewnd to you as your cake is fantastic.
Thanks for the advice every one..Peridot,when i use strips of black for my cake,they fry to a perfect black. But this happened when i covered the entire cake in black. I think next time i will add some color.
Edna, do u think I can steam this cake as it is after I completed it entirely? or do u think the colors would have bleeded?
The only time I've used black fondant was for a train cake. I started with dark chocolate Satin Ice fondant and added black coloring. Came out black. Tasted great too. Like a tootsie roll.
I don't think steaming it will make the black run. I seem to remember an episode of Cake Boss where Buddy was making toy soldier cakes for a FAO Schwartz birthday party. He used black and red fondant and steamed them to look shiny. I didn't notice any running.
Edna, is there another way to make the cakes glossy?
Thanks a lot
I didn't know that you where looking for the fondant to be glossy.
If a gloss is what you are looking for, steam will give it to you. Another way is using crisco over the fondant. You put it on like hand cream and then massage all over. I get the excess off with a paper towel.
Some people use confectioners glaze, but I never used it all over a cake.
Only for details.
Edna
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