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Colouring #5: Homemade liquid colours for wafer paper and fondant.

Hi all, my lovely friends.
News today:

As a decorator, I know my hobby also contributes to pollution. Every time I wash my brushes, after using them with food colouring, I see water changing colour and I feel guilty.
I know I can’t do without colouring, but I can limit the damage using natural colours, when ever it’s possible.
As most of you already know, vodka is used to melt dust colours.
What I didn’t know is that wodka+vegetables/spices are perfect to get coloured liquids that don’t affect the consistency of the sugar paste.

Vodka + turmeric = strong yellow;
Vodka + chard = pale green;
Vodka + red cabbage = pale purple;

Chop the vegetables and add alcohol.

Let the mix soak for a while, then filter it and put it in a tiny glass bottle (I had some from my medicines)

You can see in pics below as the colouring works, when added to fondant or brushed onto fondant and wafer paper.
yellow

green:

purple:

Of course colours are really soft and don’t work if I want to have vibrant coloring, but I feel better getting it off my conscience. :)

Clara

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37 Comments

Clara commented almost 6 years ago

Thank you, Dragana ❤️

Clara

Goreti commented almost 6 years ago

What a great idea. Thanks for sharing.

Sandra Smiley commented almost 6 years ago

These are beautiful and so clever of you! I doubt that your edible food colors are doing any damage to the environment, since they are edible.

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June ("Clarky's Cakes") commented almost 6 years ago

I’ve been doing this with some of my colours. You can buy now all natural food colouring. But it is very expensive. Although I believe that you need much less of the natural colours. I’m also no longer using plastic straws for dowels in my cakes. I’m using wooden dowels because they are compostible. I only use my own homemade cake boards, also compostible.

Creativity is God's gift to us. Using our creativity is our gift back to God. Clarky's Cakes 😎

Daphne commented almost 6 years ago

Amazing idea and the colors are really great! ♥

Dáša Krettová

Clara commented almost 6 years ago

Thank you girls ❤️

Clara

L commented almost 6 years ago

great idea👍👏
thank you😊

I work as a qualified nurse and cakes are just my great hobby .

Clara commented almost 6 years ago

Sandra, I agree with you. I didn’t mean they are toxic, just wanted to say that human beings have not the right to “color” water with chemical substances, even if they are edible, and my using alcohol too, can be dangerous, in my opinion 🙈. It’s so frustrating. Sometimes it’s seems that most of our work can damage the environment…I promise to do everything I can do, where and when it’s possible, because I also contributed to pollute our beautiful planet Earth. I hope we can fix our mistakes in time.😘

Clara