Black food colouring?

[Pico2]

I'm intending to make a Halloween cake. It will be covered in dark chocolate ganache and the decorated a bit more.

DH has suggested adding black food colouring (we have gels) to the ganache to make it black rather than brown. I'm not sure whether it will work or make much of a difference. Any ideas?

It will probably work better than you can imagine. It will send your lips black, your tongue black and if you wait a day, without wishing to get too graphic, you will see that other things have gone black!

Yep the gels are amazing and will turn it black. Id go a step further and do purple gel for the cake itself, so its a nice dark purple on the inside with a black cover.

I'm doing a Halloween cake with layers of orange and black cake and orange fondant icing with ghosts, witches and bats on it. Looking forward to doing that. I did wonder about adding black colouring to ganache too but as I am making the cake for the residents of my nans care home I think the ganache made black would be too messy.

Yeh, you might get the care staff worried if anyone is using a bed pan!

It doesn't take huge amounts to get a good black, though, if you are starting with a fairly dark chocolate. I would do it.