PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

Give your chocolate creations a bold, timeless finish with Chef Rubber Cardinal Red Artisan Cocoa Butter. This classic red shade delivers rich, vibrant color that instantly adds warmth and visual impact to bonbons, molded chocolates, bars, and other handcrafted confections. Its versatile tone is a natural choice for Valentine’s Day, Christmas, patriotic collections, fruit-inspired designs, floral accents, and elegant year-round presentations.

Cardinal Red Cocoa Butter can be airbrushed or painted onto chocolate molds, finished chocolate, or fondant, allowing you to create smooth coverage, intricate patterns, artistic splatters, and layered effects. It may also be mixed directly into melted chocolate to customize the color or applied in tempered form to acetate for original chocolate transfer sheets. Pair it with white for clean contrast, combine it with gold for a luxurious finish, or blend it into deeper reds and warm tones to create dimension and movement.

The generous 7-ounce container is well suited to production kitchens, seasonal assortments, and frequent decorating projects. Created for professional chocolatiers, pastry chefs, confectioners, cake decorators, and ambitious home bakers, Cardinal Red offers the vivid color and creative flexibility needed to transform delicious chocolate into a polished, memorable presentation.

KEY FEATURES & BENEFITS

• Classic Cardinal Red Shade: Adds bold, timeless color to romantic, seasonal, patriotic, fruit-inspired, and contemporary confectionery designs.
• Bright, True-to-Color Formula: Delivers vivid, consistent color that helps handcrafted chocolates achieve a polished, professional appearance.
• Versatile Decorating Applications: Suitable for airbrushing, painting, splattering, layering, and direct application to molds, chocolate, or fondant.
• Ideal for Custom Chocolate Designs: Can be mixed into melted chocolate or applied to acetate to create personalized transfer-sheet patterns.
• Generous 7-Ounce Size: Provides ample color for production batches, seasonal collections, and ongoing chocolate-decorating projects.

Product Size: 7 oz

Ingredients: Cocoa butter, natural colors, FD&C dye and lake colors: Blue 1, Blue 2, Red 40, Yellow 5, Yellow 6, TiO2, or calcium carbonate.

Dietary Notes: Kosher. Made in a facility that processes allergens.

To Use: Warm in increments to 86F/30C. Shake well. May need to be re-tempered.

New to using Colored Cocoa Butter? Checkout our YouTube video Colored Cocoa Butter 101: Tips & Techniques. 

Product of USA.

SHIPPING

Cool Weather: Temperatures below 70F - Orders ship Monday through Friday.

Warm Weather: Temperatures above 70F - Chocolate and perishables ship Monday through Wednesday for USPS Priority and UPS 2-Day Air, or Monday thru Thursday for UPS Next Day Air. Ground shipping should NOT be used during warm weather.

The Pastry Depot is not responsible for product(s) melting if UPS Next Day Air is NOT selected. With all shipping methods, someone must be present to receive the package and bring it inside immediately. See our Warm Weather Shipping Policy.