Help Help! Cake Due Today And Need Dark Brown!

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diamondsonblackvelvet13 Posted 21 Aug 2008 , 12:42pm
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Hello everyone! I am trying to make a dark brown but am only getting a weird army/ puke green. I added a little black to darken it and got no luck. I am out of brown now!!!! I used half a little jar of Wilton brown. icon_cry.gificon_cry.gificon_cry.gif PLEASE HELP!

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foxymomma521 Posted 21 Aug 2008 , 12:51pm
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the only thing I can think is to add chocolate. Can you call the customer to ask?

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wendalynn11 Posted 21 Aug 2008 , 12:51pm
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Are you talking about BC? If so, can you use cocoa powder?

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mcelromi1 Posted 21 Aug 2008 , 12:53pm
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Are you coloring Buttercream or Fondant?

What color did you start with? I'm only asking because if you started with white, I'm confused by the army green color.

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diamondsonblackvelvet13 Posted 21 Aug 2008 , 12:55pm
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Oops! sorry! I am using BC

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sbcakes Posted 21 Aug 2008 , 1:03pm
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Use cocoa powder. Hershey's makes something called special dark cocoa mix and it works wonderfully! You won't even need to add any color at all. It gets a beautiful chocolate brown color. icon_biggrin.gif

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mcelromi1 Posted 21 Aug 2008 , 1:07pm
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Originally Posted by diamondsonblackvelvet13

Oops! sorry! I am using BC




If you have some on hand, try adding more chocolate.

But if you just want the chocolate color and NOT the chocolate flavor, you may have to start over with white and use alot of brown and maybe a touch of black for a deeper color.

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