It mixes easily with buttercream and fondant, allowing me to achieve consistent, vibrant results every time. The large size is great for my bakery, especially during the busy Halloween season. If you need a high-quality black food coloring for your themed cakes, this one is an excellent choice!
Shank's Black Food Coloring - 32 fl. oz.
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Product Overview
- Adds brilliant black color to foods, fondant, and icings
- Resealable cap allows for longterm reusability
- Tasteless, flavorless, and odorless
- Easy to use; add color gradually for desired hue
- Great for special events and a variety of holidays
UPC Code:044519709009
The vibrant black color of this Shank's 32 oz. container of black food coloring is perfect for use with piping gel, icing, or fondant.

Give any sweet treat a pop of black color without imparting any additional unwanted flavor with this food coloring. Adding food coloring to your products can be an appropriate profit booster for a variety of holiday or event-specific occasions. Celebrate your favorite sports teams' colors or decorate baked treats with black frosting for Halloween and graduation parties - the possibilities are endless!

Orthodox Union Kosher
This item is certified Kosher by the Orthodox Union.
"Very happy with this bold black food coloring that is great for making bold writing icing that stands out. The black color is perfect and goes a long way."
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Versatile Use
Attract and tempt patrons to your new menu offerings, and mix food coloring with batter to create multi-colored cupcakes or cakes. Since water-based food color can affect the consistency of certain recipes when too much is used, it is best to add food color gradually until the desired hue is achieved.

No Adverse Flavor
This tasteless, odorless liquid food coloring is extremely versatile, transforming any dough, batter, or sugary sweet icing into a colorful work of art.

Resealable Cap
Thanks to the resealable cap, you can use however much product is required for your recipe and then safely store the remaining color for later use.

Trusted Source
Shank's Extracts, Inc. was founded in 1899, initially creating flavorings to help make medicines taste better. Expanding their company and label through the years, their flavors, extracts, and food colorings are sold in major grocery chains across the Northeastern and Midwestern U.S. Today, their primary product remains Shank's Compound Flavoring of Vanilla Bean, and they continue to make quality products for both retail and industrial applications.
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Specs
- Quantity
- 1/Each
- Shipping Weight
- 2.68 lb.
- Color
- Black
- Features
- Kosher
- Finish
- Matte
- Package Size
- 32 fl. oz.
- Solubility
- Water-Soluble
- Style
- Liquid
- Type
- Food Coloring
Customer Reviews
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4.4
39 Customer Reviews
Customers Say
Customers generally appreciate this black food coloring for its ability to achieve a deep color in various applications like cakes and frostings, noting its value in larger quantities. Opinions on its effectiveness and consistency vary, with some finding it perfect for their needs while others encounter challenges in achieving the desired shade. The product is recognized for its economical price point.
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- black
- coloring
- color
- great
- price
- nice
- perfect
- cakes
- worked
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4.4
39 Customer Reviews
Customers Say
Customers generally appreciate this black food coloring for its ability to achieve a deep color in various applications like cakes and frostings, noting its value in larger quantities. Opinions on its effectiveness and consistency vary, with some finding it perfect for their needs while others encounter challenges in achieving the desired shade. The product is recognized for its economical price point.
- food
- black
- coloring
- color
- great
- price
- nice
- perfect
- cakes
- worked
This AI-generated summary was created from real customer reviews
Customer Photos & Videos
4.4
39 Customer Reviews
Customers Say
Customers generally appreciate this black food coloring for its ability to achieve a deep color in various applications like cakes and frostings, noting its value in larger quantities. Opinions on its effectiveness and consistency vary, with some finding it perfect for their needs while others encounter challenges in achieving the desired shade. The product is recognized for its economical price point.
- food
- black
- coloring
- color
- great
- price
- nice
- perfect
- cakes
- worked
This AI-generated summary was created from real customer reviews
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Shanks extracts black food color is very runny not a very good food coloring makes frosting greasy and frosting colored more like a gray not black
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The color is a very deep black and I have been using it for a very long time exactly what I was looking for and I recommend this product
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I was a little disappointed in how this product worked. I expected to use less but it seemed like we had to use more than the recipe called for in order to get the results we were looking for.
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The right size for the perfect price! Blended well with icing and fondant and it left a nice black color. It doesn't take much to turn it into a complete black.
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I'm very happy with this order saved my life! Wish I could pick up these items here in my town at these very low prices. Thank you so very much
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I was tired of searching and searching for a good price on black food coloring. If I did find a good price it was for a very small amount. Thankfully they came through with this great price for this large amount. It really can’t be beat.
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Used this for my black velvet cupcakes, just to add a little color and it worked great. The price is perfect and will purchase again.
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Unfortunately despite good packing the bottle rupture during shipping. But Webstaurant quickly fixed the issue. They have such great customer service! Received other colors in perfect condition so know this doesn't always happen.
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I use a lot of food coloring for our various ravioli we make daily, this caramel works perfect for our meat ravioli, we also use to shade a few cakes.
This product is fantastic for added color to foods without adding additional flavors. We make a rice called Congris which is rice mixed with black beans mixed and we like it for it to be dark and the color comes from the beans but with this product you dont have to use as many beans since this will give you that darker color.
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I used to buy the small grocery store bottles, but I decided to switch to a more affordable, larger quantity product. Same quality as before and saves me a lot of money!
The food color is liquid and it works very well. No more having to buy black food dye that always ends up turning a dark blue looking color. I really like this one.
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When we have special dinners we use this food coloring to bring our homemade gravy to a darker meat gravy. It works perfectly with just a tiny drop. Great product.
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I used this black food coloring to make my chocolate ganache a little darker when I am doing my chocolate drip cakes. You would have to add quite a bit to get a full black but it doesn’t seem to alter the taste.
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Bought this for my wife, struggles to make a good black by mixing. Always ends up a darkish purple/black. This food coloring has made her life so much easier. Decorates a lot of cookies and this worked out perfect.
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I really enjoy my black food coloring it is awesome stuff . it is good to have around for decorating cakes and make all sort of cool things for kids
Very happy with this bold black food coloring that is great for making bold writing icing that stands out. The black color is perfect and goes a long way.
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I used this food coloring to make sweet rolls as a test and I was very happy with the results. It only took a small amount of product to get the color I wanted and it didn't seem to change the flavor much at all. I would recommend this and it is very economical.
The black food coloring is terrific. Really bold and dark and great for using to write on cakes and as an icing outliner. Nice size bottle.
A great buy for a quart of food coloring. It is a great quality and makes a really bold color cake batter or frosting. The caramel food coloring was brownish and great for making a unique frosting color.
Regal brand offers a great value food color. The black food coloring comes in an easy to handle quart bottle. The color is very traditional and is great for dying cake batters or frostings.
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The food coloring is liquid (not gel) so it takes longer for large batches of icing to turn black; however, for the price.. I'm definitely impressed and will be purchasing again!
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I have been trying to find a big bulk of black food coloring and I have even thought I have to use a lot it still works
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The other reviews are pretty much spot on. This coloring is fine for cake (black velvet, etc) but does not work well with buttercream- you have to add so much extra liquid because this is green-based that it bleeds out. This may work better with a high humidity buttercream recipe, but I haven't tried yet.
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I am not happy with this product... I am used to using paste food coloring... and did not realize the difference in using liquid... it does not turn out black at all... not sure if i have a defect product... but this is not good for icing at all...
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What a great deal on this huge bottle of black food coloring it's really nice deep black gave a nice black cake fantastic Definitely a great deal
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This is a good product! Another hard to find item, that is at a great price and easy to get from websturantstore. The caramel food coloring is a great adding for cooking and baking
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used this for a few desserts for Halloween. It worked ok in most items but we tried to die salt to rim glasses with. That didn't work out at all.
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This did add a nice caramel color all on it's own. in cupcake batter. It did though weaken the flavoring so add more to compensate. It was a deep brown as egg paint.
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This food coloring has brown notes to it so it's not like a deep black when you are adding it to frostings or batters or anything like that. It works but it's going to be a lighter black than a deep black.
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Caramel Food Coloring - 32 oz. #125FDCOLORCM we make an island tea known as maube that needs color at times so we add foodcolor to get it to the shade ppl like
Awesome coloring at a even better price. This is perfect coloring for fondant and buttercream. nice saturated color very quickly. Will recommend to everyone again
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Purchase this to use in my whipped icing for cakes... Was a very bad idea.. After a bit of it being on cake, the black color started to "sweat" out of the cake in very small droplets.. Have no other use for it so it's been sitting in my shelf.... Just giving it one star because it didn't work for me.
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I have had a hard time finding this from my other food venders as they stopped stocking it. i was glad to find it so i could make my pumpernickel bread.
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I have tried other food coloring products and none worked nearly as well as this one. It worked almost instantaneously and gave my food a nice shade. Will buy again.
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This caramel color is good for pastry and savory applications. It gives a nice brown sheen to my barbeque sauce. It doesn't have any flavor.
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I was very happy to find carmel color food coloring. We use a lot of food coloring and this was definitely a great find. I was very happy to find this color especially since I don't have to mix a bunch of colors to get it. It was the perfect tone, just what I was looking for. I will be back for more once I start running low.
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I ordered this black food color because black is soo tough to get when it comes to food and this one worked great! for the frosting and fondant. Great price too!




