Use more food coloring
Shade
To make red icing darker without food coloring, you can mix in cocoa powder or dark chocolate. Start with a small amount, as it can alter the flavor and consistency, and blend it in thoroughly. Alternatively, you can add more powdered sugar to create a deeper shade while maintaining a smooth texture. Lastly, consider adding a bit of black icing if available, as it can enhance the darkness of the red.
When you mix red and blue, you get purple; for a lighter shade, you just need white, which the icing itself would probably supply. you start with white icing....... then add purple icing a little at a time...... to make purple, you mix red and blue. more red than blue though. If you use too much blue, it turns black......... now, the lilac icing will turn darker the longer it sits so you want to make it, ice the cake, then serve it right away....... It will turn the prettiest shade of dark purple the longer it sits.....
The combination of a color with black to make it darker
A Darker Shade of Evil was created in 1994.
The combination of a color with black to make it darker
Mixing green and black will create a darker shade of green.
A Darker Shade of Red - 2010 is rated/received certificates of: UK:15
A Darker Shade of Gray - 2009 was released on: USA: 2009 (SCAD Screening)
You would not add any color to black to make grey icing, and once enough black coloring is added to reach a truly black icing, the only way to lighten it to grey would be to mix a tiny bit of the black icing into a great deal of white icing. The proper way to make grey icing is to simply add a very few drops of black to white icing to obtain the desired shade of grey.
A shade of gray. A darker shade of the color with which it is mixed.
use darker shade of lipstick when your teeth are yellow -Lauren Viasey- Master of make up