Also, a note on the vines: I don't know what you're planning so far (and you probably already know both of these!), but it may be easier to make a candy/chocolate plastic/fondantish sort of thing into vines and drape them than to use black icing and pipe it; black is super unforgiving if anything blobs or whatever. Black anything also often bleeds, esp. onto white frosting, so test runs are a good thing. :-) Have fun with it!
I was kind of thinking of making the vines ahead of time... and maybe buying black coloring stuff at the cake store to do it with. Not sure what substance I will use yet.
Again, I'm sure you know this, but if you're using something homemade instead of a store-bought black, starting with a chocolate version (fondant, buttercream, whatever) and then coloring from there is infinitely less vile-tasting than getting to black from white with food coloring (it also takes less time, less food coloring, and the texture stays more similar
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Also, a note on the vines: I don't know what you're planning so far (and you probably already know both of these!), but it may be easier to make a candy/chocolate plastic/fondantish sort of thing into vines and drape them than to use black icing and pipe it; black is super unforgiving if anything blobs or whatever. Black anything also often bleeds, esp. onto white frosting, so test runs are a good thing. :-) Have fun with it!
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