How To Make Gray Icing Recipes

HOW TO MAKE GRAY ICING

Steps:

• Empty Icing into a Bowl - Using a spatula, empty white icing into a large bowl.
• Add Food Coloring - Add one part of blue food coloring and one part black food coloring. Based off of two cups of icing, this would be approximately three drops of blue food coloring and three drops of black food coloring.
• When using complementary colors or primary colors, also use equal parts of each color. Start off following the rule of three drops of each color for two cups of icing and adjust as needed.
• Mix Icing - Mix the icing and food coloring together. Make sure that it is thoroughly mixed to avoid any streaks. It may take a couple of minutes to fully mix the colors and the icing together.
• Though many people may not think of gray as a color for weddings, it can look beautiful as an icing for a cake or cupcakes. It gives off an elegant look that everyone will admire.

GRAVY ICING (FOR CAKES)

Steps:

• Start this icing before you bake your cake. By the time the cake is done and cooled, the cooked portion of this recipe is cooled enough to do the last steps.
• Put flour in a small, heavy saucepan. Whisk the milk into the flour slowly so you have no lumps. Add salt and vanilla.
• Over a low heat, cook the mixture, stirring constantly so you don't scorch it, until it is thick and pasty (will form into a sort of soft ball). Once it gets to this stage, take it off the heat and set the pan, uncovered, into the refrigerator.
• When flour goop is completely cooled (cold), combine it in a large mixing bowl with the sugar, shortening and butter. Whip with electric mixer -- whip whip whip -- and keep whipping until on a taste test it's smooth and the sugar is not "grainy". The whipping process can (and does) take several minutes.
• Yields enough icing to ice one COMPLETELY COOLED 2-layer cake (lay it on thick!). Store frosted cake in the refrigerator.
• Note: DO NOT soften or melt the butter in the microwave. Just set it out in the morning or the night before you plan on making it.