My son turned 5 this week. We had a birthday party for him and per our family tradition, my husband and I made the cake ourselves. Regular grocery store cakes worry me–what artificial ingredients are in the cake, what hydrogenated oils are used in the frosting, what artificial flavors and colors were used to decorate the cake? So in our house, we make our own cake.
I want to highlight a great ingredient for cake decorating that can make your cakes colorful and fun without anything artificial. India Tree makes sprinkles, food coloring, and other sugar decorations with all natural ingredients (available at Whole Foods). The Marigold Orange sprinkles have five ingredients: sugar, beta-carotene, citric acid, red cabbage, and carnuba wax. Green sprinkles are colored by spinach, yellow by curcumin, and pink by beets. But they don’t taste like anything other than sugar. The dinosaur cake above was decorated using such sprinkles. I feel good about my children eating such a cake, and about serving it to all our friends.
Posted by dora briegleb on March 3, 2010 at 7:46 pm
I agree It was yummy and fun!