After reading that, I had second thoughts about using store bought food coloring to decorate my cookies so I looked online to find some recipes. There are lots of recipes available to follow. I read a few and then decided to somewhat improvise.
My first attempt was to make a brown food dye. I wanted to decorate the cookies in a fall theme, so browns, tans and oranges were what I was going for. I brewed a very small pot of coffee double strength. I then added some of the coffee to the icing. Here is my result.
It was way too runny and very light. I kept adding more and more powdered sugar, but it really never got much thicker than this.
I also read that tumeric can be used, but not to use fresh or else the flavor will be overwhelming. So I decided to add cinnamon to some of the icing. You can see how much darker it turned out and it tastes nice with the sugar cookies.
Next time I will attempt some brighter colors, maybe green from mint and red from berries.
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