Natural Food Dyes in Bread Art

For some time now, I have been experimenting with creative ways to color my bread dough. My favorites being matcha tea powder, cocoa powder, and turmeric powder. I have also tried a few different types of natural food dyes but with little to moderate success. (see Ladybug bread, and Butterfly Bread).

Recently, I contacted a company called Natures Flavours, and they graciously sent me a rainbow pack of natural food dyes. These dyes are all natural, vegan, gluten free, certified Kosher, and contain no synthetic chemicals. They sound amazing… but do they work? The quickest way to test all 5 colors was to make a rainbow bread.

The results were so shocking, they actually made me dance in my kitchen. Finally! A natural food dye that created brilliant, vibrant colors even after baking! The colors were evenly distributed and showed no signs of fading. Every color in the rainbow pack was true to color except for the red. The red (not unlike other products I have worked with) turned out to be more of a dark pink in the bread dough.

Rainbow Bread with Natures Flavours Food Dye
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Butterfly Bread

Butterfly Bread
This little butterfly went through quite a metamorphosis… he was suppose to be green, then blue, but then the blue came out gray, so I made him yellow with gray outlined wings. After his baking the gray all but disappeared and his antennas turned out to be more like “bug eyes”. However, I still consider him to be a success because his wings are all attached. No easy feat I tell you!
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