What colors do you mix together to make black icing for a cake?

Answer 1

No matter if you use black icing color or a combination of several colors to make black, you will have to use A LOT of the coloring (use paste colors, not liquid food coloring) to obtain a "true" black. With that being said, a lot of coloring can cause a bitter taste with your icing. If the black icing is used for outlining or very small features on the cake, the taste of the cake and other icing with counter the bitter -- but if you're icing a large portion of the cake, I suggest spending a little extra money and buy prepared black icing in a tube, can or color mist spray. Another way is to start with chocolate icing and add black until it's dark enough -- it's not the traditional way but it may make the taste better for you.

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Answer 2

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That doesn't make black, it makes brown. You can't mix any colours together to make black. You need to buy black food dye. I'm surprised that they don't teach in Elementary (Primary) school in art class that if you mix the three primary colours together you get brown. edit: Well, you'll need to go to a specialty shop. There is black dye because that is what is put into licorice. You could soak some licorice and leech off the dye, but you wouldn't get much and you'd also be leeching off the flavouring, too. In most supermarkets there is a Bakery department that makes baked goods. You could ask someone who works in it if it would be possible to buy some black food colouring from them. The only reason I brought up the mixing of primary colours is that this question gets asked a lot on here. The result of mixing of colours doesn't change from medium to medium. I don't know who online is giving the misinformation that it does, but a lot of people are apparently not being taught the basics or ignoring what they had been taught and buying into it. I'd like to get those people to take down that misinformation and stop leading people astray. It isn't nice that they get you to doubt what you already know. Thanks for the link. At the link: "Use chocolate icing mixed with black food coloring to get a true black color. Chocolate gives you a darker base and requires less color." The colour of the chocolate icing makes the food dye mixture seem darker, especially if you use a dark chocolate icing and not a milk chocolate icing, but it still isn't black. It is a very dark brown with a bluish hue. Now, this might be good enough for you as it will seem dark if it is in a small area. You'd have to try it and decide if you thought it was satisfactory. You see, what they are trying to do is have you make a brown with a blue hue by having blue and green dye mixed with red. The green adds more blue dye to the mixture, so it isn't just brown but a bluish brown. The bluish hue makes it seem darker, but it still isn't black but a bluish brown.

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What colors do you mix together to make black icing for a cake?

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How To Make Black Icing

Answer 5

Its hard to get the icing colored black because it takes alot of coloring & fades easily, but it can be done. There is black paste coloring sold at cake decorating speciality stores as well as Wal-Mart and others. But I have found that powdered black coloring works the very best. You get a better black, it doesn't take as much powder as the paste does, and it doesn't thin out your icing, or fade. You can get powdered coloring at any cake decorating speciality store or if you don't have one in your area then try online sites. I know that - kitchenkrafts.com - sells it.
Hope this helps.

Answer 6

I'd go to a craft or cake supply store and purchase black food colorant. It will go lots quicker than trying to mess about with combinations.

Or, some groceries sell black frosting in tubes.

Answer 7

Assorted Fall Food Colors by McCormick has Black food coloring in it...
http://www.mccormick.com/productdetail.cfm?id=11898

Black Paste Coloring---sold it in Walmart and Michaels

Answer 8

try red, blue, green and yellow. It makes a very close to black. I did it for a halloween cake walk at my sons school. Good Luck

Answer 9

I would just add black coloring to vanilla frosting. or mix every color together

Answer 10

try purple and blue, you might add brown if available, though baker's making a batman cake for my son used purple and blue