5 Recipes Ideas for Memorial Day or 4th of July made with natural, colorful ingredients.
FROSTING-FILLED STRAWBERRIES
Frosting-filled strawberries are a quick and delicious treat.
INGREDIENTS
basket of strawberries
½ ColorKitchen Color packet
½ pint frosting
DIRECTIONS
Stem strawberries and scoop out tops.
In a separate bowl add color to frosting and mix until all the color is blended. Using a piping bag with frosting tip, fill the hallowed strawberries with colored frosting.
If you don't have decorating tools, scoop the frosting into a ziplock bag and cut a small piece off the corner plastic and squeeze to fill each strawberry.
When finished, lightly dust the strawberries and frosting with sanding sugar or colored coconut flakes.
SANDWICH COOKIES-RED, WHITE AND BLUE
INGREDIENTS
dozen cookies
1 pint of frosting, premade or from scratch
1 Blue ColorKitchen Color packet
1 Pink ColorKitchen Color packet
1 Orange ColorKitchen Color packet
DIRECTIONS
Split 1 pint of frosting into 3 bowls.
BLUE: Add 1 ½ tsp blue to one bowl.
RED: Add 2 tsp pink and ½ tsp orange to second.
Mix colors into frosting with a spoon until fully blended. Let sit for 30 minutes to an hour. Colors will saturate, especially the red.
Leave third plain.
Frost between 2 cookies to make sandwiches.
Serve and enjoy!
For remaining color, seal packets and store airtight.
Red Velvet Whoopie Pies are fun for any season and especially around the holidays. This recipe makes it simple, using ColorKitchen's Gluten-Free Red Velvet Cake Mix with artificial dye-free, plant-based red color.
MAKES: 12
INGREDIENTS-COOKIES
1 ColorKitchen Gluten-free Red Velvet Cake Mix
3 eggs
2 tbsp plain yogurt
1 stick butter (room temperature) or coconut oil
2 tsp vanilla extract
INGREDIENTS-CREAM CHEESE ICING (FILLING)
12 oz cream cheese, softened
12 tbsp (1 ½ stick butter), softened
1 tbsp vanilla extract
6 cups confectioners sugar
1 Blue ColorKitchen Color packet (optional for blue frosting)
DIRECTIONS-COOKIES
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In a medium-sized bowl, blend eggs and yogurt into cake mix.
Add butter and vanilla and mix for 1-2 minutes.
Scoop dough using a medium-sized cookie scoop and place onto a baking sheet about 2 inches apart.
Bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes (take out of oven before edges brown).
Cool on a rack.
Once completely cooled, pipe with creme cheese frosting between 2 cookies.
Sprinkle with white sanding sugar (optional).
DIRECTIONS-ICING (FLLING)
In mixer with paddle, beat cream cheese, butter, and vanilla at medium speed until light and fluffy (about 5 min).
Reduce speed and slowing mix in sugar (& color).
Beat for 3-5 minutes.
BLUE MOON MILKSHAKE- NATURALLY BLUE COLORED
MAKES: 2 MILKSHAKES
INGREDIENTS
510 g. (18 oz.) Vanilla Bean Ice Cream
¾ cup milk
2 tsp lemon flavor
1 tsp orange flavor
1 tsp all natural cherry flavor
1 Blue ColorKitchen Color packet
WHIPPED CREAM
½ cup heavy whipping cream
7 g. sugar
½ tsp vanilla extract
1 ColorKitchen Rainbow Sprinkles
DIRECTIONS
First, make the whipped cream. Using your stand mixer with whisk attachment, or with a hand mixer, add the heavy whipping cream, sugar and vanilla extract to the mixing bowl.
Whisk slowly at first, then gradually turning up the speed as the whipped cream thickens until you are at full speed. Whisk until the whipped cream is thick and doesn’t fall off the whisk.
Put whipped cream in a piping bag with decorating tip #846.
In a blender, add the ice cream, milk, lemon flavor, orange flavor, cherry flavor and blue dye. Blend until you have a smooth and creamy milkshake.
Pour into milkshake glasses and top with whipped cream.
Sprinkle with rainbow sprinkles!
Baker's Note: To make this vegan, just use organic vanilla vegan ice cream (like Coconut Bliss) and use organic coconut milk instead of milk!
BUNDT CAKE GLAZE
MAKES: GLAZE FOR 1 BUNDT CAKE
INGREDIENTS
2 cups powdered sugar
⅓ cup butter
1 ½ tsp vanilla
2 tbsp water
1 Blue ColorKitchen Color packet
DIRECTIONS
Melt butter in a saucepan.
In separate bowl blend powdered sugar and color.
Stir in with melted butter and add water slowly. Mix until blended smooth.
Pour over and cover cake. Let cool before enjoying.