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How To Make Black Icing

David and David of the Outsider Tart bakery in London give you a step-by-step guide to making a smooth dark black icing for frosting cakes. Enlarge

How To Make Black Icing

David and David of the Outsider Tart bakery in London give you a step-by-step guide to making a smooth dark black icing for frosting cakes.

Prep:
5m
Total:
5m

Ingredients

  • vanilla buttercream frosting
  • 1/2 cups (120ml) cocoa powder
  • black paste food colouring

Method

Add half a cup of cocoa powder to a batch of vanilla buttercream icing and fold together. Add a small amount of black paste food colouring and mix well by hand or in an electric mixer. If the frosting becomes a little too thick, add some milk.