I have a up coming cake and need to get my buttercream black.It is not turning dark enough.Any suggestions or products?I am currently using a gel.
Thanks
cakegirl71
I had a wedding cake that had to have black detailing and I tried several gels and pastes and nothing made it darker than slate grey. So, I went to Sam's and bought a tub of black. It was cheaper than the total cost of all the tubes of black color that I had already used. It also did not "bleed" into the white butter cream!
It does take a lot of black color. If it is a DARK grey it should turn black after it sits a while. It gets quite a bit darker. Hope this helps! If you use cocoa first it won't take as much black coloring.
If you put cocoa in it first and turn it brown, it will not take as much black color to make it black.
Make chocolate BC then add black coloring. when you start off w/ chocolate BC then it doesn't take a lot of color gel. I melt either semi-sweet or unsweetened chocolate depending on how much icing I need. if it's a lot I use the semi-sweet to help cut down on the taste of black BC
I learned the hard way to start with chocolate! Used a whole jar of black paste coloring! If you find it's looking a different color (mine was turning green ), you can add a color on the opposite side of the color wheel (I had to add red).
I always keep a can of chocolate fudge frosting on hand... it works perfect to color black. and it is better taste than just white buttercream tinted black. for that last minute black frosting that is needed to write with or frost.
but if it is a big project you can also buy black buttercream from sams club.. they sell small buckets of it..and many other colors. I think it is about 17.00 for the bucket..i bought red for christmas cakes that I did. so much better than trying to tint that much frosting all the same color.
If you color your frosting pink and then add red it will take less. Remember is gets at least a couple shades darker after it sets. If you put a dab on some wax paper and let it set you will be able to see what the end color will be. Don't add too much red, because it will get too dark and then it isn't very pretty.
If you use super black from americolor you won't need much. I was leary at trying this but had so much problem with red and black that I thought I would try it. I will never use wilton again. I can get black or red right away with this product without using much of it.
I've started using the Wilton buttercream tubes for any black or red piping. I've given up on mixing it myself.
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