It's my DD 3rd bday on Thursday, so Sunday we are having family over for a cake, and in 2 hours we are having a playdate with her class for next year..
Anyway, today has to be egg free (got a recipe I'm about to do for cupcakes), but we are trying really hard to do a semi fail-safe diet with my DS, and I'm avoiding colours if I can.
Chocolate and sugar seem to be ok (in moderation of course), but yellow in soft drink has made him lose the plot before. Although I haven't done the retest, so maybe I should just use all the colours (although I should use them individually I guess?), but I don't know how to decorate cakes etc without using colours in the icing. Every lolly I can think of (smarties etc) to use instead is also coloured.
Is there anything else you can add to icing to get a good vibrant colour? Is there any other way to decorate cakes??
Please help... I'm a cake hack at the best of times, and this is making it 100 times harder!
I think i saw Christy post something similiar ages ago, but i remember her mentioning the use of beetroot/beetroot juice for colouring?
can't help out otherwise sorry..
Do you have a cake decorating supply store near by somewhere? I know wilton do some certified kosher products, i'm just looking at their U.S website now, and they have a food colour spray that is certified kosher, you just spray it on/over your cake (I've never used it though) I thought their food colouring gels were the same as well...I just can't find anything yet... will keep looking.
eta: According to their website, their icing colours are certified kosher, and are a gel, so you get a much more vibrant colour using less as well. They have a yellow which i just checked, is daffodil yellow and is suppose to be an all natural colour and does not contain yellow #5. Not sure if that helps you out or not? Maybe if you can find somewhere near you that stocks Wilton products?
Cake decorating without artificial colours
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