DD is turning 3 in a month. She has been mentioning that her birthday cake will be purple! I'd like to surprise her with a purple cake but have no desire to use artificial color for it. We rarely eat any sweets and I'm trying to stay away from a store bought cake. Does anyone have a recipe for 'natural' purple icing or cake (or both)?
I tried eadible flowers mixed with icing first (lavender) but the taste did not really fit to the choclate cake.
A bit better was a blueberry/blackberry mixture with icing, however it was a bit dark blue/purple
Blueberries and cream cheese make a lovely shade of purple. Go easy on the blueberries, start with a tiny handful and then go darker as you like. we used the food processor and it looked great.
I made blueberry couscous cake (recipe online) for my little one and the whole cake came out purple! You can make a blueberry kanten (vegan jello) on top as icing if you'd like.
Just don't make the kanten so rock hard like I did that we weren't able to insert a birthday candle
I just made a really beautiful B-day cake using the india tree dyes. I think thats the name. They are the ones a pp mentioned, Whole Foods carries them. In a cream cheese frosting. I doubled this recipe:
12 oz cream cheese, softened
3/4 c. butter softened
2 Tbls. maple syrup
1/2 c. powdered sugar
whatever color you want to make it
Hi mamas,
We made DD a purple cake using boiled down blueberry juice. It tasted great and DD loved it!! Now she thinks I should have a green cake for my birthday. lol!
Thanks again for your help!
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