Coloring coating chocolate

[rajoress]

Hello all,

I have a tub of Cacao Barry Ivoire dipping chocolate that I want to color but I currently don't have the right shade candy coloring. Do you think I can use regular gel food colors that contain a small amount of water? I know if I was using white chocolate that needed to be tempered, I couldn't use the regular food coloring but thought maybe with the chocolate coating it would work.

Thanks for any advice!

Ruth

[Kerry Beal]

I think you'll need to stick to fat based colours as the Ivoire is compound and the same sort of thickening will happen as it will with 'real' chocolate if you add water based colour.

[Lisa Shock]

I've only used the fat based colors with Ivoire, seems safest.

[rajoress]

Okay - thanks for your replies! Off to find some oil based coloring locally....