Can I colour white ready to roll icing?

[cupcake78]

Making birthday cake today and need black icing. Can I colour the white ready to roll icing with black icing gel colouring? If not how do I make black ready to roll icing.

Yes you can, but it will take forever to do. You can buy black icing (in a sugar craft shop) which would be far easier.

I got DH to knead the colour into 1.5kg of ready to roll and it didn't take too long (would have taken me a lot longer though). Proper Black might be harder to achieve though and I'd probably just buy it instead you can order online

Like others have said, it's possible but I wouldn't recommend it. I forgot to order black icing for a cake a few months ago and needed quite a bit. I used the gel stuff and made some. The actual result was fine but it took a loooong time to get black rather than dark grey, used a huge amount of colouring and was a total PITA!

I've successfully tinted white R2R to pastel shades but I agree with the others that black would be really difficult to achieve. - here's a link to where you can buy some

Thanks, I've only got today so I'm off to find a cake decorating shop

This will be too late but I have found that leaving the icing overnight helps deepen the colour. I coloured R2R icing black not that long ago. Iced the cake and left it overnight - was deep black the next day.