Sephra - Colouring a Chocolate Fountain

Pretty In Pink

Today we got a call from a lady who was throwing a baby shower and she said "I need to colour my Chocolate Fountain pink. My daughter is having a little girl and I want a pink Chocolate Fountain". Sometimes we'll get ladies who will call up and they'll say "I need a blue Chocolate Fountain because the expectant mother is having a little boy".

And so what we're going to do is we're going to go through some of the steps that I would to prepare your Chocolate Fountain to have colour added to it. And just so that everything is perfect the first thing is you need to use White Chocolate. Sometimes we'll get questions of "Can I use dark or milk Chocolate?" and frankly you can't. You have to colour White Chocolate.

Hone, Hone On The Range

The colours that Sephra offers in an oil-based food colouring are Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet, Black and Pink. The colours themselves... first off, you cannot use a water based colouring... water and Chocolate don't mix. If you add a water-based colouring to the Chocolate it will cause it to seize. When you receive your oil-based food colouring there's oil, and there's also ingredients that make up the colour, so it's important to shake the bottle pretty well... it mixes rather quickly.The other thing is I always try and remove as many variables that might cause the Fountain to not work as possible, and what I mean in saying that is I will get calls from ladies and they'll say "I decided to melt my Chocolate in a double boiler and then I added the colour in there as well".

Preparing your Fountain For Colouring

Well let's get the Chocolate Fountain running first and then add the colouring in. If you melted it in a double boiler, a double boiler insinuates that the water is boiling. Water boils at 212 degrees fahrenheit and Chocolate will scorch above 132 degrees... so if you decide to have a double boiler to melt your Chocolate I recommend following the instructions on the back of the bag. They're microwavable safe bags... they're BPA free. We have another video that you can watch that specifically goes through and talks about how to melt White Chocolate but it is a little bit more temperamental because of the high dairy content. So have a look at the other video.

The Perfect Chocolate

For the time being I melted it in the microwave. I poured it in the Fountain and my Fountain is running so I know my Chocolate is perfect... it's the right temperature. I know that the my Fountain has the minimum amount of Chocolate in it to make it flow and so now I'm going to go ahead and add my pink oil-based food colouring to this and the Auger that's spinning in here is going to mix the food colouring for me. So really I have very little to do at this point and I can colour it even to the shade that i'm looking for. So let's go ahead and pour this in and see how it turns out. I love this part it's really actually pretty exciting as I add my pink oil-based food colouring to the crown of the Chocolate Fountain. I'm only dripping it in and the reason for that is I'm looking for a specific colour and so I only go slowly to ensure that the oil-based food colouring can mix in with the Chocolate and I end up getting the exact colour that i'm hoping for.

The Final Touches

Once I've gotten the Chocolate to be the colour that I'd like it to be there's white Chocolate that's sitting in the bowl. I take a spatula... I'll push that White Chocolate into the pink curtain that's flowing down. When I do that that Chocolate will then mix in with the pink Chocolate and my Fountain will be a bright and beautiful pink.

Chocolate Fountain Colouring Tips

I would invite you to give us a call the next time you consider colouring your Chocolate Fountain any of these colours. We have an email that we can send out that'll actually give you the ratio of oil-based food colouring to pounds of Chocolate. Although the pink required very little food colouring to get it a bright pink the red requires considerably more and each of the colours have their own unique ratio of colouring to Chocolate that's required so give us a call we'll shoot you a quick email and as always thank you for watching another one of our quick tips.