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Can anyone tell me how to make Black MM Fondant.  I am going to do a Play Station 3 cake for a single mother with children.  I really don't want to put out $40.00 on fondant if I can make it myself.  I know black is not a easy color to achieve.  Any help would be much appreciated.

 

Bev Hansford

Cincinnati, Ohio

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I make it all the time! I use wilton black coloring. I always make a whole batch of black at one time and put any extra in air tight container. I mix in the black coloring while the MM are melted (before the sugar). I use about 1/3 of a jar of coloring for one batch of black MM fondant. Maybe a smidge more. It's just SOOO much easier to add the color evenly before the sugar. Then mix the sugar in as usual. It will get darker as it sits too!
For my second fondant cake I made my son now 16 a "Nightmare Before Christmas" cake. I made my marshmallow fondant the day before and I colored it with my colors the next day. I here it is it is better to kneed the colors the day you make the fondant. I just added the color to my fondant little by little til I liked what I saw. Don't know if it was the right way fore sure, but It worked for me.


Good Luck.
Terri Kalley
Greensburg Indidana
Great looking "black" MMF. I do my coloring the same way because I like to split my one recipe for all the colors that I need. That way I have no waste, yes, it probably takes a bit more time but it works for me too. Love the black marble affect!

Terri Kalley said:
For my second fondant cake I made my son now 16 a "Nightmare Before Christmas" cake. I made my marshmallow fondant the day before and I colored it with my colors the next day. I here it is it is better to kneed the colors the day you make the fondant. I just added the color to my fondant little by little til I liked what I saw. Don't know if it was the right way fore sure, but It worked for me.


Good Luck.
Terri Kalley
Greensburg Indidana
I mixed dark blue and black color to make my black icing. It started off looking gray and slowly darkened to black. I used to to make the black ribbon and bow for a cake. I've read you can also use chocolate fondant as a base and add black.
Chocolate fondant does work as a good black base. It doesn't take too much black color to color it and it still tastes like chocolate. That black fondant takes on a bad taste with too much gel in it.
I guess I sound like I'm repeating myself but Americolor Black soft paste food gel is the best just used it today for a Gilligans Island cake.
Put it in after you melted the MM and let the mixer do the blending or by hand either way I have gotten a very true black just keep adding drops to achieve how dark you would like it.
Also never had it fade on me. just ordered 2 more kits of Americolor can't live without it..
Good luck
P.S.
MMF is an easy recipe melt one bag mini MM with a few tbsp water add in 2 pund bag of powdered suger a little at a time I never use the whole bag. let it rest awhile or overnight and get out the Crisco for kneeding and on your work surface. If fondant gets a little to dry microwave at 5 second intervals it get it plyable according to how much you are heating I use my stand mixer to Kneed.

Terri Kalley said:
For my second fondant cake I made my son now 16 a "Nightmare Before Christmas" cake. I made my marshmallow fondant the day before and I colored it with my colors the next day. I here it is it is better to kneed the colors the day you make the fondant. I just added the color to my fondant little by little til I liked what I saw. Don't know if it was the right way fore sure, but It worked for me.


Good Luck.
Terri Kalley
Greensburg Indidana
Thank you to all for the replies. With all this info I feel like I can do this now! Will make my fondant tonight for the cake on Saturday. Have a great day.

Bev

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