Hello everyone!
I’ve been trying to make navy blue macarons but all of them so far need an unhealthy amount of food colouring to get even dark blue. I was wondering if there was a way to get navy blue without colouring tongues blue. Does luster dust work? Also if not how to get navy blue since that has also been an issue. Any help is appreciated!🙏
(The first photo is my reference and the second is one of the attempts)
by Cloudy_Sakura
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You won’t get navy without turning tongues blue. I do a lot of navy macarons for one of my clients (local university whose colors are navy and gold), and the best recipe I’ve found is using master elites’ powdered colors. 3 dashes of blueberry, 2 of black, and a smidgen of orange. Perfect navy every time.
Solid dark colors will always take a disturbing amount of coloring to achieve and no tongue will be spared. Even with the master elite powders I use.
Sometimes I do a swirl of something lighter with the dark shade I want, in order to not color tongues at an event. 1/5th or 1/4th the dark color, the rest the light color. Darker colors in swirls will dominate the ratio more than you think when piped.
Your gut also won’t filter the dyes, it’ll be blue in the toilet 🙂
You could try some experiments with butterfly pea flower powder to try to offset it a bit.
This works for me by navy blue food coloringand using dark cocoa powder in the shells.
Powdered dye. Might not color mouths, but depending on how many a person eats, the toilet will likely be blue at the end of the ride.
I know it’s not what you’re aiming for, but I think the blue from your attempt photo is really beautiful 😍
Anyone else find that reference photo kind of horrifying, with baby’s-breath (which is poisonous, as far as I’m aware, and prone to crumbling) all over something that’s ostensibly meant to be eaten?
As others have said, though, colors like this take obscene amounts of food coloring. I used to make red velvet cake for my birthday with my mom, and I think it took three or four bottles of food coloring.
Hi! I’ve actually gotten that color using my black gel. It’s pretty hard to achieve jet black macs from what I’ve experienced but when I’ve tried they’ve always come out dark blue. You can check profile for reference. (Could also be the brand of gel I use).
Fwiw I think a main ingredient in the inspo photo is editing.
I airbrush mine to minimize the blue lip zombie party effect 🧟
Are you using gel coloring?
Unless you want to spray a veneer of dark blue cocoa butter or paint them blue at the end, the answer is no. Even with those options you are still going to dye peoples tongues and turds. That’s the nature of food dye, it has to be soluble for your food, so it will be soluble in your saliva. You could use natural colours to get you the density and a bit of blue to get you the shade. Someone already mentioned Dutch process cocoa powder plus blue. I haven’t tried that myself though.
I actually get a very nice true navy by using about 1/4 teaspoon of the master elites cerulean blue and a big T of cocoa powder. Yes, it flavors the macs but the color is lovely.