If I add food colouring to melted white chocolate, will it go horrible?

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I want to make rice crispy cakes using white chocolate coloured orange. I only have ordinary red and yellow food colouring (bottles). If I add drops of water based colouring to melted white chocolate, will it all seize up?

I don't want to waste 400g of chocolate!

I think you’d need to use the concentrated gel food colouring rather than the liquid stuff. I’ve done it with melted marshmallows and rice krispies but never coloured chocolate.

Hi, when colouring chocolate you need to use oil-based food colouring or it will sieze up. I bake an awful lot 🙂

I have marshmallows - maybe I should use those instead. Although last time I tried that it was messy, so chocolate would be safer. Maybe I'll just do white chocolate and stick a jelly eyeball in the top of each one.

You know I looked in Sainsbury's and I didn't see anything labelled "oil based food colouring". Is that the gel ones?

Aye melting marshallows (from memory you add butter too) is pretty horrible, it’s very sticky and you need to work fast before it sets, and still you end up with half of it stuck to the pan!

Use gel colouring. 3 drops yellow to 1 drop red to get orange.

It's already horrible 😜

I imagine supermarkets wouldn't carry oil based colouring, probably just the basic gel or water based ones. When do you need it for? I get mine off Amazon. My favourite brand is Colour Mill but they can be quite expensive. If you have a look I'm sure there are other brand that won't brake the bank!

I think gel would make it seize? Google says you can also use powdered food colouring, but again, you probably wouldn't find it in the supermarket.

I colour chocolate all the time, I use both liquid and gel food colouring and my chocolate has never seized up.

@FlowerPower12345 I use any coloured powder I have like cocoa, coffee, matcha etc

Fair enough. Mine always does if I don't use oil based!

Easier to buy coloured chocolate op. You can get loads of variety now and it's much easier than trying to colour it.

Unfortunately I have to make them tomorrow morning for a cake sale tomorrow afternoon

How do you add in the colour if it's liquid?

That would have been so much easier (and not much more expensive either) but tbh I had no idea such a product existed

Could you not just put food colouring into a drop or two of flavourless oil and stir to mix, then stir that into a small amount of melted chocolate before you add the rest?

Disclaimer : I have never done this. But I would try if I was in your position.

If you have The Range they sell tubes of gel colour and do orange. Only use a tiny droplet about half the size of a teardrop.

@TheProvincialLady um... water and oil don't mix, adding oil won't take the water out

Whatever colouring I'm using I simply stir a few drops into the warm melted chocolate until I get the colour I want.