50 shades of grey frosting

This beautiful shade of grey was achieved by using activated charcoal! Activated charcoal is something that everyone should have in their medicine cabinet. It’s completely natural and is a fine, odorless black powder that has been widely used from water purification to natural teeth whitener to preventing vomiting. Wait, what? Yuck! But seriously, this stuff is amazing!

We’ll add natural food coloring as just one more tick that activated charcoal can be used for. I used four capsules to achieve this shade but you can use one capsule or even eight! It just depends on what shade of grey you prefer…

Recipe

2 egg whites

2 tsp water

4 cups powdered sugar

4 capsules or 2 tsp activated charcoal

In a stand mixer or in a large bowl with a whisk, mix together the egg whites and water until frothy. One cup at a time, add in the powdered sugar and mix until the frosting takes on a glossy sheen.

Add in the charcoal, one capsule at a time until you get your desired shade.

Here’s the shade after my first capsule.

And here’s the shade after my fourth capsule.