I’ve seen a technique before where people mix cocoa butter and powdered food coloring to create an opaque edible “paint.” I bought those things and tried it, and it did not work at all. When the coloring mixed into the cocoa butter it turned black and clumpy. I tried 2 different light blue powders and they both did this. I also tried it with pink petal dust from another brand which worked a tiny bit (see Scooby’s tongue) but was still extremely translucent and didn’t reeeeaaally cover the chocolate ganache.
I ended up using white chocolate and edible paint pens cause I didn’t want to admit defeat and ended up with this hot mess. The dog tag is extremely messy.
I got this scooby doo cake mold on eBay by the way. I didn’t want to use buttercream cause I didn’t want his face to disappear, so I thought ganache would be better.
by Icy_Effective4748
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This looks adorable! Nothing wrong with trying something new, hopefully it tastes great.
This looks great, dude
Not all powdered coloring is fat soluble to mix with cocoa butter. That could possibly be your problem.
You still did an amazing job!
I’m not a cake decorator or a baker. I just love watching people’s baking art. I follow cake decorating and cakes on Reddit. If someone made this for me I would think they did such a great job and take a photo of it with pride. As someone else said, it’s something new. Don’t be so hard on yourself. It’s a great first try (to me it’s a great any try lol but to you) and just keep practicing and learn from whatever you don’t like.
There’s a problem with the paint job? I thought it looked great, the only thing I noticed was that the ears look a bit stubby. I think it turned out really well!
I love Scooby doo. One of my favorite cartoons of all time even at almost 32 years old. My coworkers and friends get me Scooby stuff randomly all the time. If I got this cake I’d probably tear up! It’s so cute and hopefully it tastes great
Scooby ❤❤ I love it
I think you forgot the ‘fail’ picture.
Next time frost it with chocolate frosting, and then use a little bit of vodka and brown food coloring for the fur and a nice blue for the collar. It’s what I use every time, and I have been baking for about 20 years!
I love this 🩵
Looks good. Maybe some research is needed into the coco butter technique.
Give yourself some credit. This looks phenomenal
Zoinks! Sure, looks great! I could sure go for a hunk of this cake as a Scooby Snack.
This is a “fail”? I disagree. Looks amazing!
For cocoa butter you need to use oil based food coloring! Colour Mill and Americolor have great options. Tbh though I think it still turned out great!
maybe you can try oil based food coloring instead of powder food coloring? i thought the job you did spreading ganache on a curved cake is really good! i know difficult that is