Friday, December 4, 2009

Turns Out, The Answer Would Be "No"

We had frozen blueberries


and frozen cherries

so I thought "Great, I'll get pink and purple frosting."  Since I didn't want the frosting to actually taste like cherries or blueberries as it turns out that even I have some food weirdness limits (who knew?), I defrosted them and smashed some of the juice out

stirred the juice into the frosting--being careful to add a little more sugar to compensate for the extra liquid

and voila!

I think there's a sort of slight hint of purple in the one on the right.  Of course, you can see it better when you compare it with just the white frosting

See?  It looks like 3 paint samples of "beige," doesn't it.  On the cookies doesn't help much

but I think from this angle

you can see a bit of color.  And that my counters are dirty, but we're "overlooking" that part....

And, of course, all those decorator things--sprinkles, red hots, colored sugar--are completely off limits, so this is as good as these cookies are going to get.  Not great, but considering the last time I tried making sugar cookies, they morphed into one bizarre giant cookie in the oven, so progress is progress.

And to hedge our bets, these aren't going to any parties where alcohol isn't being served, so......

2 comments:

Mandy said...

It only goes to show just how much colouring is being added to foods.

Unknown said...

The skins from Italian plums will give you something close to purple. At least when I make jam with them (whole plum with skin on) it comes out very deep, dark red.

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