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| First food color |
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| After Crystal Colors were added |
I started with melted white chocolate and added oil-based blue food color 
to get it to a medium blue color. I then used a pot of dark blue Crystal Colors, which is a powdered color so it won't make the chocolate do anything weird if you use a lot of it.
to get it to a medium blue color. I then used a pot of dark blue Crystal Colors, which is a powdered color so it won't make the chocolate do anything weird if you use a lot of it.
Something else to keep in mind is that darker colors tend to get a little darker when they sit for a while, so you don't want to go too far or you'll end up with a deeper shade than you want. Add the corn syrup to it, let it set up...
Kara Buntin owns A Cake To Remember LLC, custom wedding cakes in Richmond VA
8 comments:
The cake is gorgeous!! And the tips are great, thanks for sharing!!
Oh Kara that is just gorgeous... actually its devine.
So chic.
Hmmm, so after colouring the chocolate - you then spread it out with a spatular on your bench top - allowed to air dry and then cut as tho using fondant - yes?
Pfftttt, however you did it - its gorgeous.
Lolll - didn't i just say that - *blush*
Can you tell i like it - lollll
Maxine
Maxine, I made chocolate clay with the chocolate after I colored it. Unfortunately, you have to use corn syrup to make chocolate clay, which I hear is very expensive where you are.
I imagine that you could use glucose to make chocolate clay...I don't know if that's more available in Australia???
Morning Kara,
I can get Corn Syrup - as the Heatlth Food Shops stock it - and some supermarkets.
Glucose is readily available in our supermarkets -
I us ethe Glucose when making my Marshmallows - and it works a treat.
I shall toddle off to the HFS and grab some Corn Syrup.
Thank you Kara...and again the cake is just gorgeous.
M x
that looks awesome and i bet tastes great! thanks for the tips :D
cindy/cindy's cakery
oh I just love that blue - it is perfect. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for this! I tried to use candy colors only to achieve a similar color recently and my clay was an oily mess! Totally unusable =(. Crystal Colors sounds like it's really good. Is that just a brand of powdered food coloring or is it more of a petal dust? I couldn't find many details on the site. Thanks!
Six Bittersweets, It's a food-coloring grade petal dust, if tht makes sense. I think that it's technically meant to be a petal dust, but the colors are FDA approved for food use, which a lot of petal dusts aren't. The colors are very saturated, so you don't need to use as much as you would with other types of petal dusts. I love them, the colors they give you when you use them as dusts are very deep and rich.
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