Food coloring for chocolate

Create colourful pastries with confidence using the right food colouring!

To colour your chocolates, you cannot use just any food colouring. Here is a brief explanation that will help you understand when to use the right one.

What is the difference between oil-soluble and water-soluble food colouring?

As their names suggest, oil-soluble colourings (lipo=fat) are oil-based. They need fat to be diluted and to bring out all their pigments. That's why they are used to colour white chocolate, butter, cocoa butter, and ganaches.

Water-soluble colouring, as indicated by its name (hydro=water), is water-based. It is ideal for use in preparations such as sponge cakes, macaron shells, mirror glaze, and cookies, but it is never suitable for colouring chocolate.

Whether water-soluble or oil-soluble, you can find them in powder or liquid form.

Oil-based liquid colouring:

Colour Mill is a brand of oil-soluble colouring that offers a plethora of colours for your chocolate creations. You can find all the colours we offer in our product "Colour Mill oil-based colorant". Among these colour choices, there is a booster that will allow you to create beautiful shades. These colorants are highly concentrated, so just a few drops are enough to vividly colour your mixture.

In this category, we also offer pigments from the brand Decora. This range of colorants is primarily used for colouring pure chocolate, perfect for making your coloured chocolate shells. To create an artistic visual, splash the moulds with colour before pouring in your tempered chocolate. If you want to succeed in making chocolates like a professional, follow our recipe for homemade Kinder bars or our Easter bunnies. (available only in French or German)

Oil-soluble powder colouring:

These are specially used for colouring fat-based preparations like white chocolate, ganaches, and other butter-containing preparations. These oil-soluble food colourings in powder form function similarly to the liquid ones, but they will give you lighter tones in your creations. You can also use this powder to add an artistic touch of color when decorating your cupcakes, muffins, cakes, and chocolate drinks.

Bring life to your treats with our food colourings for chocolate

As you can understand, at Cakelicious, you will find liquid and powder colourings for chocolate, enabling you to create all kinds of unimaginable treats. So dare and take the step to make your own homemade chocolates!