How to Make Black Food Coloring

Knowing how to make black food coloring comes in handy, especially during the Halloween season. Whether you need to draw black spiders on your cupcakes or make black cats on your cookies, you have to have black icing. Learn to make black food coloring and get your icing as dark as a moonless night.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Empty food coloring bottle
• Red food coloring
• Blue food coloring
• Yellow food coloring
• White icing
• Spoon
• Black permanent marker

1. Find an empty food coloring bottle. Rinse it out so the bottle is clean. This is the bottle in which you will make the black food coloring.

2. Add equal parts of red, blue and yellow food coloring to the empty bottle. Pour one-third of a bottle of red food coloring into the empty bottle. Add in one-third of a bottle of the blue food coloring. Finish it off with one-third of a bottle of yellow food coloring.

3. Secure the lid on the bottle. Shake the black food coloring vigorously so it is mixed. Test the food coloring by putting a couple of drops into a small amount of white icing.

4. Mix the black food coloring into the icing thoroughly. If you find that the food coloring is not as dark as you like it, add a little more red food coloring to the mixture.

5. Color the lid of the bottle with a black permanent marker so the bottle is identifiable. Store the bottle in a dark place to reduce color fading.

Tips & Warnings

• Use chocolate icing mixed with black food coloring to get a true black color. Chocolate gives you a darker base and requires less color.
• Be careful when handling food coloring, as it stains.

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on 12/18/2009 nstructions
Things You'll Need:
Empty food coloring bottle
Red food coloring
Blue food coloring
Yellow food coloring
White icing
Spoon
Black permanent marker
Step
1
Find an empty food coloring bottle. Rinse it out so the bottle is clean. This is the bottle in which you will make the black food coloring.

Step
2
Add equal parts of red, blue and yellow food coloring to the empty bottle. Pour one-third of a bottle of red food coloring into the empty bottle. Add in one-third of a bottle of the blue food coloring. Finish it off with one-third of a bottle of yellow food coloring.

Step
3
Secure the lid on the bottle. Shake the black food coloring vigorously so it is mixed. Test the food coloring by putting a couple of drops into a small amount of white icing.

Step
4
Mix the black food coloring into the icing thoroughly. If you find that the food coloring is not as dark as you like it, add...

[cab1882008]

on 10/29/2009 What a great article!