Three years ago when I wrote a post on natural food coloring (Here) Mary from The Cotton Apron suggested trying carrots for food coloring. Thank you for the suggestion, Mary! I finally gave it a try! I was pleased with the resulting color. I, also, used the grated carrots to make a carrot jam filling between the cake layers. I'll be sharing how that turned out in a future post.
Carrot Food Coloring For Icing
1. Peel and grate a pound of carrots.
2. Sprinkle 1 tablespoon of sugar over the grated carrots. Mix well and let rest 10 minutes.
3.Pour the carrots onto a clean flour sack towel or cheese cloth.
4. Gather up the corners of the towel or cheese cloth, and squeeze out the juice from the grated carrots.
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| I got 1/3 cup of juice. |
5.In a small sauce pan boil the carrot juice, stirring frequently, until juice has reduced to about a tablespoon of liquid.
6. Mix carrot food coloring into icing and stir until completely incorporated.
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| Before mixing |
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| After mixing |
Your cake is lovely! Using carrots to color the frosting is a wonderful idea. The idea of making a carrot jam to spread between the layers sounds delicious! I recently saw a recipe for carrot jam, and was wondering what it would be like.
ReplyDeleteThank you for the comment and compliment, Sarah!
DeleteI found an old recipe for carrot jam online and loosely followed it. I thought it was an interesting idea. I thought it tasted nice, too.
Nice natural icing! I'm sure your cake tasted as lovely as it looks!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Jennifer! The cake recipe was Country Plain Cake from an old farm house cook book. My family really likes that recipe. Maybe I will post it some day.
ReplyDeleteThat is so neat! I'm glad it worked out so well for you. :-)
ReplyDeleteThank you for the idea, Mary! It took me awhile get to it, but I'm glad I did, finally! :)
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