Hey everyone,

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!