1UP Cakes

Step 5 Melt!

Now to make the icing.

Break up all your chocolate into a microwavable bowl, then blast it for a while on a defrost setting or the lowest power you have available. Keep doing it until it gets a bit melty like in photo #1, then you can stir it up.

Now add your food colouring, and be ready for something ugly to happen: Chocolate is oily, and most food colouring is water based. So, the same as if you're melting it in a steamer and some water gets into it, when you add colouring the chocolate will immediately seem to dry out and stiffen, going powdery and lumpy in places.

You can sort this out by adding a little bit of cooking oil or milk - not too much or it will get really watery and not be able to set.

Keep adding colouring and oil/milk as needed until you get the shade of green you want, and that's your icing ready.

Comments

[mlowarren]

If you use candy coloring in place of the food coloring your chocolate shouldn't ever get lumpy and need oil/milk :)

[jeff-o]

We made these today, you really do need a river of green food colouring to get a nice rich colour!

[Nachimir]

Yeah, I think I used about 3/4 of a bottle.