Make your own colored cocoa butter for your chocolate at home

I’ve always wanted to make my own cocoa butter colors, but always thought it might be too hard or annoying to do. But because a lot of you asked me how to do it and also because DIY colors should be a bit cheaper, I pulled myself together and recorder my first attempt.
The option I want to show you is NOT cheaper than my favorite colors from Chef Rubber or Roxy and Rich, but I think it’s a first step into the right direction.
I bought pre-mixed powdered colors from The Sugar Art and thought I would be able to make cheaper colors, but ran the numbers after I purchased the powders and …oh well they colors I made are about $3 more expensive than the ready to use colors from Chef Rubber and Roxy and Rich.
It makes sense that my DIY colors with the powders from The Sugar Art are more expensive tho. They already mix different color tones and mica (that’s the glitter stuff) together, so you end but with not only primary colors like blue, yellow, red but with gold, purple or kiwi.
The basic rule is 10 parts cocoa butter to 1 part color. Don’t forget to temper your colors.
Here’s a video about how I temper my chocolate and colors:
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In case you want to buy cocoa seeds to temper your colors and chocolate, here’s where you can get them:
www.cacao-barry.com/en-US/cho...
If you want to look for your own powdered colors (food additives), here are a couple coloring agents:
Glitter - Mica
Titan Dioxide (white) - E171
Red 3 - E127
Red 40 - E129
Blue 1 - E133
Yellow 5 - E102
Yellow 6 - E110
But there’s also a great list on Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_number
I’ve heard from multiple people that Ebay is a good place to look for them. Just make sure it’s a food grade and a powder.
I also love this great explanation from I sugar coat it:
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