Brown Food Colouring for icing???

[mum3girls]

I'm doing a trial run of my daughter's birthday cake and the recipe calls for brown colouring for the butter icing. It also has 1 tablespoon of cocoa powder and says to just tint the icing with the colouring.

I went for a look at our local Woolies and I've picked up Parisian Browning Essence (says it's for browning gravies, soups, broths, beef tea, cakes and puddings) and Imitation Chocolate. Would either of these work, or should I look somewhere else?

TIA

[Heaven]

The cocoa should make it brown anyway??

[[M]umma[M]ia]

yep sara that what i think too!

[mum3girls]

Yeah that's what I was thinking, but wasn't confident enough since the recipe asks for brown colouring as well as the cocoa. Think I might just make up 3 batches of the icing tonight, one with just cocoa and the others with the different essences and see which one looks best and tastes good as well

[Heaven]

Yeah, I reckon the cocoa one would be fine, or just add more cocoa, that's would i would do coz I love chocolate icing, lol.

[[M]umma[M]ia]

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm chocolate

[~Raven~]

Real chocolate melted in icing is awesome