Comments on: How to Make Dark Black Royal Icing

By: Patricia Figueroa

Patricia Figueroa — Sat, 27 Jan 2018 05:32:00 +0000

Hi Sugar Belle,
I have a question I just iced my cookies with royal icing, can I make a cut out with fondant and applied to the iced cookies will the cookies be ok ??? please if you can answer ASAP, I need it in a couple of days..
Thank you so much..
Patricia

By: Karen

Karen — Sat, 15 Oct 2016 00:18:16 +0000

When coloring icing, i never thin it out beforehand. The coloring thins it, especially dark colors where a lot of color is added. Wait until you’ve achieved the color you want. Then, if necessary, thin it out. I’ve had good luck with the Mish mash method, using up others colors to make darker ones. Last night i turned Notre Dame blue into black for some cookies that needed black.

By: Kelly_o_stahl

Kelly_o_stahl — Thu, 14 Apr 2016 17:08:01 +0000

Thank you

By: Jane

Jane — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 19:53:31 +0000

I need to make stormy cloud cookies and plan to use this black icing in various shades. What I can’t figure out is how to get the colors to randomly blend together so it doesn’t look like piped lines??

By: sandra palma

sandra palma — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 20:35:40 +0000

Hola, me encantan tus publicaciones y todas tu galletas, eres fenomenal tienes mucho talento. Siempre tengo problemas con el royal icing negro nunca logra secar por completo ni aun metiendo en el horno unos minutos….será que le pongo mucho color??

By: Mike RIchards

Mike RIchards — Sat, 04 Apr 2015 00:48:29 +0000

In reply to Mike RIchards.

Ok, I’ve changed my mind…again…lol. After rereading your comment about HOW you did the sparkles, I realized we might be talking about different parts. You mentioned you airbrushed the numbers and letters. But I’m talking about the gold stripes in the black and gold santa hat. Are there sparkles in the gold stripes or is it just the picture is grainy? To ME, it looks pretty cool…lol. Was that the intent or did it just turn out grainy? Also, in the meantime, I went and got something called Petal Dust…is that the same as Luster Dust? I got it from a local Lobby Hobby and some of the canisters said Petal Dust and some said Luster Dust but they were all on the same display and had identical packaging…just different names.

Also, when it comes to using the dust, can I use clear vanilla extract as my liquid instead of everclear? I don’t even know if anyone sells everclear where I live but I don’t want any alcohol taste at ALL.

Thanks for your advice!
Mike