Food Coloring, Not just for Easter

I have been making more food at home lately. I have a bunch of food coloring bottles. I have been putting random food colors in all kinds of things. The colors do not come out well in the photos so I put some descriptive words around the pictures. What is nice about the food coloring is that it really does not change the taste of the food.

Rice yellow food coloring

Cookies red with green M&M’s

Muffins red

Tuna Mac and Cheese aka “Brains” green

Cream Cheese Frosting blue

A Giant Cookie orange

Adding the food colors to random food has made cooking a little more fun. You should try using food colors throughout the year.

Homemade Cheesecake

I have been feeling adventurous with baking lately. Even though I did not like how the wedding cake came out, I still am enjoying baking. I am trying to clean out my baking supplies. Though I guess I should not have bought more chocolate chips. I have a bunch of cream cheese I am trying to use up. I bought some graham crackers and made my own crumbs. I crumbled too many so I made two cakes. In the round one I added some fresh squeezed lemon juice.

 

I ate this square one last night. It was pretty good. A little over cooked perhaps.

This one I added lemon juice. The lemon was not noticeable in the final product. The taste was not as dry as the square one. Taste was about the same. I meant to add strawberry jam to the top of one of the cakes. I forgot about the jam though.