
Making your own food coloring is not only quick and easy, but is a great way to avoid adding unknown chemicals to your baking and cooking. Using only water and common red cabbage, you can quickly create a beautiful blue shade to add to frosting, batter or to dye Easter eggs. The resulting food coloring is 100 percent natural, has no foul smell or taste and can replace store-bought blue food coloring in most recipes.
Chop 1 cup of red cabbage
Bring water to boil on the stove top in a medium pot.
Remove pot from high heat and add the chopped cabbage.
Place pot on low heat and simmer for 20 minutes until the cabbage leaves turn from red to dark green and are slightly soft.
Strain cabbage and throw away solids.
Add a small amount (less than 1 teaspoon at a time) of baking soda to the liquid to intensify blue coloring to your desired shade.
Use the liquid, which should now be a deep shade of blue as a dye in recipes or for coloring hard-boiled eggs.
Related Articles

How to Use Beet Root in Baking & ...

How to Make a Healthy Pancake Syrup
How to Make Homemade Liquid Rouge

How to Make Liquid Sugar Concentrate

How to Cook Yucca Root

How to Get Yellow Out of a Gray Beard

How to Make a White Decorator Icing

How to Make Lactose Free Icing

Does Purple Cabbage Turn Blue After ...

How to Cook Mixed Greens

How to Thicken Cake Batter

Safe Red Food Coloring for Cake Baking

How to Make N.Y. Deli-Style Coleslaw

How to Cook Blue Hubbard Squash

What Is Ratio for Cornstarch & Water to ...

How to make Orange Extract

How to Roast Beetroot

How to Flavor White Cake Mix With ...

How to Make Cranberry Juice from Fresh ...
How to Make Alfredo Sauce With Cream ...
References
Writer Bio
Stephanie Rutherford-Scott has more than 10 years of experience in print and multimedia journalism for Booth and Gannett Corp. Her work has been published by the Associated Press and Gannett News Service in news publications throughout Michigan and the United States. She received her Bachelor of Arts in creative writing and journalism from Western Michigan University.
Photo Credits
red cabbage image by dinostock from Fotolia.com