These blue snowflake cookies are naturally colored with red cabbage! Yes, you’ve read that right: they’re colored with red cabbage! 😀 Isn’t it such a beautiful baby blue? And don’t worry, they don’t taste of red cabbage! 😉
Sugar Cookies
- 250g (2 cups) flour
- 125g (1/2 cup) butter
- 50g (1/4 cup) sugar
- 2 egg yolks
- pinch of salt
Preheat the oven to 180°C/ 350°F. Knead all ingredients together. Roll out the dough on a lightly floured surface to 1/4″ (1/2cm) thick. Cut out cookies with a round or fluted cookie cutter. Bake for 10 minutes.
Natural Blue Icing Recipe
- powdered sugar
- hot water
- homemade natural blue food coloring made with red cabbage
Stir together powdered sugar and some hot water (don’t use lemon juice because natural food coloring is ph-sensitive). The icing should be thick but pourable. Color one part of the icing with some drops homemade natural blue food coloring made with red cabbage. Add less homemade natural blue food coloring for baby blue and more for dark blue.
Ice the cookies with the natural blue icing. Let the icing dry for some minutes. Then use the white icing to draw snowflakes onto the blue cookies.
I love that baby blue colour – It’s perfect for these snowflake cookies!
Thanks, Corina! 🙂
So Pretty. Thank you for linking to #CookBlogShare
Thanks, Jacqui!
That is so cool! Never thought about using red cabbage.
Thanks, Shannon!
Oh. My. Goodness. That is so cool! I would have never known that red cabbage makes a blue food dye. You learn something new every day and you just taught me something…thank you!
Thanks so much, Vickie! 😀
I can’t wait to try this! Your snowflakes are lovely!
Thanks, Wendy!
The cookies look delicious! I love that you get blue coloring from red cabbage. Thanks for sharing with SYC.
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Jann
Thanks for stopping by, Jann!
These look so yummy and perfect for the cold weather outside #BloggerClubUK
Thanks, Michelle!
I love the light blue color! That’s amazing the color comes out blue like that. We just picked a bunch of radishes in our garden! Wish I was close by, I would give you some! Thanks for sharing on Foodie Friday!
Thanks for stopping by, Julie!
These are adorable and I love the colouring – very clever! x
Thanks, Maria!
How pretty!! And I love that you’ve colored them with a natural dye.
Thank you!
This is a great trick and I did try this method of colouring which worked beautifully. The nice thing about it is you can choose your shade of blue with the amount of colour you add. Yours do look much prettier than mine.
Thanks, Hilda!
These are so pretty! It’s amazing what a beautiful color come from the cabbage! Thanks for sharing at The Blogger’s Pit Stop! Roseann
Thanks for stopping by, Roseann!
The cabbage makes really pretty shades of blue! Thanks for sharing with Party in Your PJs. 🙂
Thanks, Lynda!
Your cookies are so dainty and elegant. If only they were calorie free! 🙂 Pinning your recipe.
Lol! 🙂 Thanks for pinning!
These look wonderful, I love the delicate colouring #ourminilinkyparty@_karendennis
Thanks, Karen!
Your cookies look delicious, I love that color! Your post is awesome and thanks so much for sharing it with us at Full Plate Thursday. Have a great week and come back to see us real soon!
Miz Helen
Thanks, Helen!
Gorgeous – I’d love to see those sitting on my holiday table. Thanks for sharing at the what’s for dinner party.
Lol! 😀 Thanks, Helen!
Those are absolutely beautiful. They’d be perfect for a Frozen themed party!
Thanks, Bronwyn!
Never in a million years would I have guessed you used red cabbage Lina. How amazing and it’s such a beautiful color too. Wow
Lol! 😀 Thanks, Michelle, and thanks for featuring me!