Adventures in food colouring
February 15, 2008
What follows is a photo-documentary of my attempt to make black icing the colour of my cat’s fur for a cake.
The actual result was not black, but a cold, dark violet, which, against the white and chocolate icing, and in tungsten lighting, could still trick the eye into seeing black. I mixed almost all of the red, blue and green colouring into the vanilla icing, but only added a touch of yellow, seeing that it did nothing to darken the mixture.
The final result: Unfortunately, I ended up using most of the colouring, which thinned the consistency and produced runny icing, that could only be contained by an outline of the thicker white.
