Warning!Food dyes have been linked to everything from bladder cancer, brain tumours, attention deficits, bed wetting, migraines etc. Most artificial food dyes are petroleum based, yes the same stuff used to make fuel for your car. According to Dr. Mercola, artificial dyes have the same effect on your child as lead. I took the girls to the dentist a few weeks ago and was completely appalled that they handed the girls toothpaste and a mouthwash filled with blue dyes and not to mention fake sugars. Yuck!
Sure, according to the food industry there is so little added to your favorite pastas, chips, drinks, pickles etc. there isn't enough to cause an effect. That doesn't work for me or a thankfully few other countries who have already banned unnatural food dyes.
We have managed to make birthday cakes from using natural foods to make our coloured icing. Here are a few ways we have created coloured frostings/icing.
Yellow
-Turmeric spice works awesome. A little goes a long way so start slowly. If you add too much you make alter the taste. I love this spice but not in my dessert.
Purple
-Strained blue berries work wonderfully
Blue
-Strained blueberry juice with a pink of baking soda. It will cause a chemical reaction and make a blue
Green
-I have not yet tried this one but apparently juiced spinach works really well and doesn't not give a spinach taste
Pink
-Juiced or boiled beets, a little juice goes a long way and not it doesn't taste like beets.
-Strained raspberries or berry jam also make beautiful pink colours
If you are not up for making your own colours I have heard good things about this natural food colouring India Tree Natural Food Colouring.Here are a few pictures of the rest of our party, I figured my family may want to see these.
Happy Birthday Beautiful!
