Here are my improvisations for natural food colours as I don't like to use chemical colours. They work great in icings.
I recently made a green cake for my son's second birthday!
I have a juicer and I just use juices in my icings to colour them.
Beetroot juice for pink/red
Spinach juice for green
and Carrot juice for yellow.
They are brilliant!
Camilla Berry (Sussex, England)
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I think this is a great idea - but wouldn't there be a taste involved with using these, spinach for example? Or is the amount used to color minimal and no extra flavoring is detected?!
What can I use for BROWN -like adding cocoa in whole wheat bread or what should i use?
I wonder about the veggie taste too; but boy, this is a great idea! So many people (including me) are allergic to the artificial colorings. So clever of you!
How do you add them to the other ingedients? I don't have a juicer.
You can't taste the spinach in the icing, or the beetroot or carrot. None of my family realised it wasn't ordinary food colouring from a bottle - they were really suprised when I told them it was vegetable color!
If you don't have a juicer you could just finely chop the vegetable and liquidise it with a little water, then strain it through muslin or even kitchen paper. It should work just fine.
I have attached a picture of my son's Birthday cake that I made using the spinach green icing on the top and beetroot pink icing inside, so you can see how the green icing looks!
Good luck,
Camilla Berry, uk
Excellent Options. Do yo know how to create a blue color that's all natural?
Does anywone know how you would get a red color? - I think beets but they have very strong flavor.
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