About Making Black Icing...

Decorating By Dana0323 Updated 16 Sep 2007 , 1:41am by Fascination

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Dana0323 Posted 12 Sep 2007 , 7:55pm
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A friend of mine wants an Over the Hill cake for her sister's bday, but she would like a white cake with Black icing. I've never done an all-black cake before. Isn't black really hard to get to from BC? I've only made it from Choc BC. Will it taste bad from me using all that black coloring? I wonder if I shouldn't try to convince her to either just use black as an accent, or go with a chocolate cake with choc icing, so I can achieve the black easier.

Any tips you have are greatly appreciated!

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peg818 Posted 12 Sep 2007 , 8:01pm
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Yes its hard to achieve, yes it will taste bad, yes convince her to use something else. Maybe a shades of gray with some black accents.

Another thing, the black will color everyones teeth.

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countrykittie Posted 13 Sep 2007 , 12:46am
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I used chocolate icing to get the black I needed for my lipstick cake. It's the easiest way to get the black colour I think.

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Carolynlovescake Posted 13 Sep 2007 , 5:37am
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Originally Posted by peg818

Yes its hard to achieve, yes it will taste bad, yes convince her to use something else. Maybe a shades of gray with some black accents.

Another thing, the black will color everyones teeth.




That's not all it colors!

I have this on every box used for red or black frosting when they insist on it...

Please Note:
Colored frosting eaten in large quantities may discolor your urine or feces and match the color of frosting eaten. This is especially the case with red and black frostings.

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Ursula40 Posted 13 Sep 2007 , 7:39am
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@CarolynGwen
are u serious???????????
Wow, I never thought of that

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mydelights Posted 13 Sep 2007 , 8:17am
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Please Note:
Colored frosting eaten in large quantities may discolor your urine or feces and match the color of frosting eaten. This is especially the case with red and black frostings.




Is it health hazardous then? That's reason for concern.

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miss_sweetstory Posted 13 Sep 2007 , 9:02am
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Hee hee...I can help but chuckle!

Anyway, have you thought about airbrushing with black?

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Carolynlovescake Posted 13 Sep 2007 , 3:51pm
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No it is not health hazardous.

It is used in such a high concentration to make those dye colors and when we have to uselarge amounts... well you get the picture.

About 15 years ago I did a very red cake for a wedding. As we know every wedding has a cake pig... 12 hours after he left the reception his cake starts passing through him.

His wife rushed him to the ER because everything was so red they thought he was bleeding and it was blood in his pee & poop. The doctor asked about food dye and what he had eaten... he took a HUGE amount of the cake home and was eating it for meals. His wife said he was red for about a week.

Same thing happened with a black monster truck for a 5 year old. The morning after the party his mom woke to find him asleep on the floor with his cake next to him in front of the fridge.... ALL the frosting wiped off with his stained hands, teeth & mouth stained black as night. Later that day his poop... jet black.

I updated my label that day and added black to it. lol Now every cake with high levels of red & black frosting that goes out has that warning. I beg the host/hostess to pass it on to the guests too just in case they have a cake pig at the party.

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cakebaker1957 Posted 13 Sep 2007 , 6:53pm
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Originally Posted by CarolynGwen

No it is not health hazardous.

It is used in such a high concentration to make those dye colors and when we have to uselarge amounts... well you get the picture.

About 15 years ago I did a very red cake for a wedding. As we know every wedding has a cake pig... 12 hours after he left the reception his cake starts passing through him.

His wife rushed him to the ER because everything was so red they thought he was bleeding and it was blood in his pee & poop. The doctor asked about food dye and what he had eaten... he took a HUGE amount of the cake home and was eating it for meals. His wife said he was red for about a week.



Same thing happened with a black monster truck for a 5 year old. The morning after the party his mom woke to find him asleep on the floor with his cake next to him in front of the fridge.... ALL the frosting wiped off with his stained hands, teeth & mouth stained black as night. Later that day his poop... jet black.

I updated my label that day and added black to it. lol Now every cake with high levels of red & black frosting that goes out has that warning. I beg the host/hostess to pass it on to the guests too just in case they have a cake pig at the party.


HAHAHA this is so funny, at least somethings gets colored black with out trying

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maria892 Posted 16 Sep 2007 , 1:17am
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Found this Wilton site whilst reading a question about Batter qty's and pan sizes.

This should answer your question re: colours.

http://www.wilton.com/cake/icing/colortips.cfm

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Fascination Posted 16 Sep 2007 , 1:41am
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Hello Dana0323

does the cake need to be iced with butter cream?. if not, have you considered fondant? Satin Ice's black fondant is amazing & tastes pretty good.

ciao

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