Patriotic Strawberries With Natural Food Coloring

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Patriotic Strawberries With Natural Food Coloring

Patriotic strawberries are such a fun 4th of July dessert. And you don’t even need artificial food coloring! These red, white & blue strawberries are naturally colored with homemade natural blue food coloring! 😀

Patriotic Strawberries With Natural Blue Food Coloring

Patriotic strawberries are so easy and fast to make: In just a couple of minutes you have a delicious summer dessert!

Easy Patriotic Dessert

You’ll need homemade naturally colored blue sugar for this patriotic dessert. I made peppermint-flavored blue sugar for peppermint-flavored patriotic strawberries.

All-Natural Healthy Patriotic Dessert

Isn’t the dark blue color of the naturally colored blue sugar amazing? It’s perfect for all-natural 4th of July treats! 😀

All-Natural Healthy 4th Of July Treat

 

Ingredients:

 

Patriotic Strawberries Dessert Recipe

I made icing with hot water and powdered sugar. Don’t add something acidic to the icing, such as lemon juice, because red cabbage food coloring is ph-sensitive and the blue sugar would turn purple.

Patriotic Strawberries With Natural Blue Food Coloring

Dip the strawberries into the icing.

Naturally Colored Patriotic Strawberries

Then dip the bottom of the strawberries into the naturally colored blue sugar sprinkles.

Patriotic Strawberries With Natural Blue Food Coloring

Place the all-natural patriotic strawberries on a plate or parchment paper to dry.

Red White And Blue Strawberries With Natural Food Coloring
Aren’t they cute?

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Have I taken too many pictures? 😉 I just couldn’t stop taking pictures of these cuties! 😀

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38 thoughts on “Patriotic Strawberries With Natural Food Coloring”

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  3. Lina, What a beautiful display these make and perfect for the summer parties! Thanks for sharing your wonderful posts with us at the Celebrate the USA Link up! Pinned!

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  5. I happen to have a severe allergy to food colouring. I have to carry an epipen and prednisone with me where I go. I couldn’t pin this post fast enough.

    Thank you for the recipes. Fantastic advice and the strawberry idea is super cute as well.

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  11. Okay, this is seriously the best idea ever!! What a great and simple way to bring in the 4th of July this year.
    So glad I saw this on the Homestead Blog Hop!

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  14. Your Patriotic Strawberries look awesome! Hope you are having a great week and thanks so much for sharing with us at Full Plate Thursday!
    Miz Helen

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  23. I’ve never tried making my own colored sugar, but now I really want to try it. Thanks for sharing on Merry Monday. Pinned and will be including this on this week’s MM party.

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