Black colored Gumpaste

Yes. Add a couple of tsp of baking soda to your fondant and knead it in. You won’t taste the baking soda, and it helps “set” the colour. I do this with purple, but it works for black too. Especially if it’s homemade.
Hope this helps…..

Thanks for the tip June!! I’d not heard that before!! I’ve always purchased black; but have had problems with my purple fading…gonna try baking soda for sure:) Do you know if that trick works in buttercream as well?

Yes Chris
It does work for buttercream

That’s great news, jchuck – I’ll have to try that! I really noticed my black fading when I did those Air Jordan shoes a few weeks back. It was heartbreaking too, because they looked SO good before the fade. No one probably realized it but me, but it still stung a little.

I did m sons RCT hockey skate for his b-day cake last Jan, and the black stayed true for 5- 6 full days.

Thank you so much for the tip…..I will pass it on as well.

Yes basking soda… It also helps keeps purple colour too

Great tip, thanks… I’ve only ever made black gumpaste using premade black fondant, I don’t think it faded but I’ll go and check now…

When I make black fondant I first add lots of cocoa powder mixed with a little cooking oil. When I have a dark brown colour I start adding black gel colour. This way I use much less gel colour and the black tastes and smell delicious.