How to make black icing

Well, I'm no expert, but I have tried to make black icing before and couldn't do it. It was always a muddy brown and that much food coloring tastes bad.

My advice to you is to buy black icing. The other thing you can try is see if someone sells black food coloring. You can also buy super concentrated food coloring that is more intense than the liquid you get in the grocery store.

But as for me, I make EVERYTHING from scratch, and I buy black icing.

Wilton sells black frosting concentrate that you add to your frosting. A little goes a long way. I usually use wiltons food colorings. People say you can start with chocolate frosting and add the four colors from the food coloring. However, I always make mine from scratch so I use the concentrate. Here's the site for you http://www.wilton.com/store/site/product.cfm?id=3E . That goes directly to the icing colors.

My daughter made a cake with black frosting. She said to substitue Black Dutch cocoa powder for the cocoa in a chocolate frosting recipe. You can find the cocoa powder at the King Arthur Flour website. She wasn't sure about the exact website, so you will have to search it.

Simply just add cocoa powder to the royal white icing if, however it will have a chocolate-y cocoa powder taste. Therefore, if you do want the natural royal icing taste so many places sell black food coloring during halloween. :) good luck. keep me posted on how it comes out.