How to make gray icing?

Stan England

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Apr 2, 1993, 5:53:44 PM4/2/93

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Well, the subject pretty much says it all.
I want to make an armadillo cake, ala the movie
Steel Magnolias and need some suggestions on
how to make a gray icing that somewhat resembles
the color of an armadillo. Of course the inside
is red velvet cake for a wonderful effect
when cut before the anxious party goers.

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Sharyn N McWhorter

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Apr 3, 1993, 2:59:49 PM4/3/93

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In article <94...@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM> tho...@tekig5.pen.tek.com (Stan England)
writes:

>Well, the subject pretty much says it all.
>I want to make an armadillo cake, ala the movie
>Steel Magnolias and need some suggestions on
>how to make a gray icing that somewhat resembles
>the color of an armadillo. Of course the inside
>is red velvet cake for a wonderful effect
>when cut before the anxious party goers.
>

Stan,

I believe the grey color comes from a mixture of all different colors. Some
food coloring kits show on the back of the box proportions for different
colors. Grey should be one of them listed. My first choice would be a drop
each of red, blue, green, and yellow mixed into white icing, and take it from
there. Not very scientific, is it!!??

smcw--

Erica D. Rodgers

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Apr 4, 1993, 10:41:28 AM4/4/93

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tho...@tekig5.pen.tek.com (Stan England) writes:

>Well, the subject pretty much says it all.
>I want to make an armadillo cake, ala the movie
>Steel Magnolias and need some suggestions on
>how to make a gray icing that somewhat resembles
>the color of an armadillo. Of course the inside
>is red velvet cake for a wonderful effect
>when cut before the anxious party goers.

Get some black food color paste and add just a tiny bit to white
frosting and you'll get grey. You should be able to find food
coloring pastes anywhere they sell cake decorating supplies. I know
that Wilton makes them (I have a bottle of it). The nice thing
about the pastes is that they won't affect the consistency of your
icing as liquid colorings sometimes do.

Erica
the...@cabell.vcu.edu

Nicole Vecchi

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Apr 5, 1993, 2:49:42 AM4/5/93

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I made gray icing--by mistake! Several months ago I made a red
velvet cake and then proceeded to make the icing. The only flour
I had was unbleached--the stuff looked like gray wall paper paste!

If it's still not gray enough, start with food coloring.

I didn't want gray so I added in 2 squirt bottles of yellow--the
icing was the taxi-cab yellow.

nicole

Dorothy Westphal

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Apr 5, 1993, 2:42:30 PM4/5/93

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In article <94...@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM> tho...@tekig5.pen.tek.com (Stan England) writes:

>Well, the subject pretty much says it all.
>I want to make an armadillo cake, ala the movie
>Steel Magnolias and need some suggestions on
>how to make a gray icing that somewhat resembles
>the color of an armadillo. Of course the inside
>is red velvet cake for a wonderful effect
>when cut before the anxious party goers.
>

Check your yellow pages under Cake Decorator Supplies.
You should be able to get all manner of colors in small jars,
including black.

--
Dorothy Westphal, Sunnyvale, Calif. % Always expect the good. %
west...@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com % %

Robin L. Gibson

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Apr 5, 1993, 4:44:57 PM4/5/93

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>In article <94...@tekig7.PEN.TEK.COM> tho...@tekig5.pen.tek.com (Stan England)
>writes:

>>Well, the subject pretty much says it all.

Another option, I would think, would be to procure some of the Wilton
black icing color and add it drop by drop to white icing.
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Robin L. Gibson gib...@email.ncsc.navy.mil
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Panama City, FL 32407-5000

soc1071

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Apr 7, 1993, 7:17:00 PM4/7/93

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In article <1993Apr3.1...@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>, smcw...@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Sharyn N McWhorter) writes...

assuming you're using a white base, I'd just use black food coloring!

:)
Elisabeth
soc...@vx.cis.umn.edu

soc1071_elisabeth_pletcher-harincar

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Apr 7, 1993, 7:38:00 PM4/7/93

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>You should be able to get all manner of colors in small jars,
>including black.
>
>
>--
> Dorothy Westphal, Sunnyvale, Calif. % Always expect the good. %
> west...@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com % %

Hey! I bought my black food coloring at Williams-Sonoma along with more
colors than I'll ever use. It was expensive, but I figure I'll never need
to buy food coloring for the rest of my life! A little goes a long way!

Elisabeth
soc...@vx.cis.umn.edu

Christine G. Wechter

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Apr 5, 1993, 8:16:31 AM4/5/93

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In article <1993Apr3.1...@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> smcw...@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Sharyn N McWhorter) writes:
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>
>Stan,
>
>I believe the grey color comes from a mixture of all different colors. Some
>food coloring kits show on the back of the box proportions for different
>colors. Grey should be one of them listed. My first choice would be a drop
>each of red, blue, green, and yellow mixed into white icing, and take it from
>there. Not very scientific, is it!!??
>
>smcw--

Not very scientific at all -- but this is art here, so it's ok! When I
was growing up we used to help Mom frost the Christmas cutout cookies a
and dye the Easter eggs. One sister loved to experiment with dye -- when
we were close to being finished, she would mix all the leftover frosting
or egg dye together, then add a few more drops of food coloring until
she had a lovely shade of battleship gray. No one actually *ate* anything
made with the gray frosting/dye, but it was fun to watch the creation process.

jm0...@d60student.org

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Apr 11, 2016, 9:04:55 PM4/11/16

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Stan,
Just what smcw said, make sure they are all equal parts until you get the desired color

Stan England

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Apr 11, 2016, 9:08:21 PM4/11/16

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Thanks! I *almost* gave up waiting for a reply.

itsjoan...@webtv.net

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Apr 11, 2016, 9:35:41 PM4/11/16

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On Monday, April 11, 2016 at 8:04:55 PM UTC-5, jm0...@d60student.org wrote:
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> On Friday, April 2, 1993 at 4:53:44 PM UTC-6, Stan England wrote:
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> > Stan England |

> Stan,
>
> Just what smcw said, make sure they are all equal parts until you get the desired color
>
>

Since the thread you are replying to, dolt, is 23 years old
I figured ol' Stan was probably long dead.

Stan England

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Apr 11, 2016, 9:37:38 PM4/11/16

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Hey.........!

John Kuthe

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Apr 11, 2016, 11:10:00 PM4/11/16

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Food colors are fun to play with. When Bryan and I lived together at Novelty Studios we used to make black pancakes, black spagetti sauce and one time made blue AND green spagetti!

John Kuthe...