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Recipe for natural purple icing for DD's birthday cake

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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)?
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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
 
#9 ·
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

Good luck!
 
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