28/09/2026
The one thing I refuse to do as a cake maker 👇👀
Make black buttercream from a vanilla base. 🖤
I’m not interested in using a ridiculous amount of black food colouring to turn vanilla buttercream black. I wouldn’t want to eat it, so why would I make it for someone else?
Instead, I start with a chocolate buttercream base using black cocoa powder. This gives me a really good dark base to build on, so I only need a small amount of black food colouring to take it the rest of the way.
Then comes the secret weapon: an immersion blender. It helps deepen and intensify the colour, giving you that gorgeous, true black without having to throw loads of colouring into your buttercream.
I’ll happily use vanilla-based black buttercream for small details or accents, but not for covering a cake in black? Chocolate base every time.
And yes… you really can get this black without using a bottle of colouring. 🖤
Save this for the next time you need to make black buttercream — and send it to a cake maker who needs to see this!
