Cake decorating help please x

fizzel81

thank you for more great tips, checked asda out today can get the ready to roll easily and even some pre-rolled (in a long tube box) but alas no black food colouring , i have found black ready to roll on ebay but its alot more than i need

will try out the 2 cakes and cutting (watch this space!) i am now tempted to have a go at making one rather than night before (just in case) as i dont want to have to resort to buying one (plus there chocka with rubbish)

fizzel81

well the black icing arrived today, going to have a little play around tonight as its ds3's birthday tomorrow and ive got a plain (but no icing yet) choc cake that i can try some decs out on before i ice it later tonight for him tomorrow

ds2's is just over 2 weeks from now so ive got well 2 weeks to get this right

im stressing so much over a cake, asda now do a kung fu panda if things go that wrong....

GreenManG0

Just saw your post, looks like you already have the black icing, but just incase.
There is a cake compnay that sells alot of decorating accessories in hobbycrafts (they name completely escapes at atm, think it begins with W!?)

Anyway i remember reading on their website, to get a true black it is better to colour chocolate icing with black colouring, that way you get a more even deep colour!

recovering_spendaholic

I see you have already go the black icing but for future reference Supercook do a packet of four smallish blocks of coloured roll out icing - you get about 150g of each of black, green, yellow and red. It costs about £2ish from memory but lasts a while as you generally don't need much of the deeper colours and I knead a little bit of each with white to make pink, grey, lemon etc. If you can get them I find the Jane Asher cake books are the easiest to follow and she does several Teddy Bear ones which you could make into Pandas. You can get the Jane Asher books in most libraries and I got a couple in a Charity shop once!