Black MM Fondant

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Permalink Reply by Angela Mullican on June 8, 2010 at 11:37am

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!

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Permalink Reply by Terri Kalley on June 8, 2010 at 2:52pm

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

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Permalink Reply by Stampinsher on June 8, 2010 at 3:54pm

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

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Permalink Reply by Windy Jimenez on June 8, 2010 at 4:26pm

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.

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Permalink Reply by Deah on June 8, 2010 at 4:46pm

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.

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Permalink Reply by Nancy Hinds on June 8, 2010 at 5:13pm

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

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Permalink Reply by Beverly Hansford on June 9, 2010 at 11:29am

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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