How To Get Dark Brown Frosting With Out Using Chocolate?
Decorating By sarahkathryncakes Updated 18 Jan 2011 , 10:05pm by langranny

Does anyone have any suggestion on getting brown without using chocolate? I have done it in small batches before but Im concerned about making it taste funky. Thank you!

I typically use cocoa powder to help lessen the amount of coloring needed to make brown or black.
I'm not sure if anyone else has any suggestions, but I think you will need to use all coloring to get the color you want. Black will help get it darker quicker instead of using a ton of brown.

Im wondering If I use a little bit of cocoa powder If it will just darken it like I would like without making it chocolate frosting?


I was thinking you didn't want to use Cocoa powder (I had a cake once for a little girl who was allergic.)
I like the Hershey's dark cocoa powder and I think that will help, but I think you may still need to use some coloring. The more cocoa powder you use, the more chocolatey your frosting will be.

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