What brands of natural colors has anyone else used? And please share photos if you have!
With the ban on Red 3 in the future, for this order I was asked to use natural food coloring. I used the 365 natural liquid coloring set from Whole Foods. I also bought some beet powder and extracted color with hot water and allowed to cool and strain. Using the beet powder directly to icing will show some grains of beet since it doesn’t dissolve. The brown colors were achieved by adding drops of all 4 colors and then I added cocoa powder. For the darkest brown, I added black cocoa. I don’t think it’s possible to get true black without going to squid ink or charcoal. Neither of those sound palatable to me.
Because of my uncertainty of how the natural coloring would work, I created the characters as a large transfer on squares of parchment of time. That way if it was difficult, I wasn’t ruining the entire flooded base.
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