Today we made an edible color wheel. This is probably the third or fourth time over the past six or so years that we have done this activity. It is always a big hit! First we made some frosting.
Or you could just buy a can of white frosting. But not me, because that would be too easy.
3/4 (organic) butter, 2 cups (organic) powder sugar, tsp vanilla, Beat till smooth, add milk to desired consistency.
You will also need a plate or 4, butter knives or stir sticks, vanilla wafers, organic optional and food coloring.
We used natural food coloring, because, again, I am crazy like that, but regular food coloring works too. Actually the natural red would not get past pink, so we ended up adding a few drops of red food coloring. And be forewarned the natural food colorings have a taste-and it’s not too good!
So each of my girls got a dish of white frosting and a plate. They made 3 equal piles of frosting on their plates and mixed up a batch of primary colors, spread it on three of the cookies and set them aside.
Then we talked about the secondary colors and what we would get when we mixed red + blue (purple), red + yellow (orange), and yellow + blue (green). We mixed that up on the plate, ( leave some of each primary color for further combining), spread that onto three cookies and added them to the others.
Next we talked about tertiary colors and combining green + yellow (yellow-green), yellow + orange (yellow-orange), orange + red (red-orange), red + purple (violet or magenta), purple+blue (indigo ), blue + green (blue-green). Spread that on six cookies and completed our circle.
Next we tried mixing all the colors together and got a grayish color.
Molly didn’t like the taste of the colored frosting, but of course Ginger, like Mikey, will eat anything. (but hopefully not pop-rocks and coke together!)
There you have it-and edible color wheel!!
And I know the Mikey thing was just a wives tale-it was a joke!! Geesh
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That’s a cool activity!
So groovy–I love that you did this with premade cookies!
Seeing as I just bought a box of vanilla wafers for myself, I mean the kids, and have food coloring on hand this sounds like an excellent project for this weekend.
Well this is a danged good idea. I don’t have any f’ing food coloring ofcourse.
yummy. i want some.
I love it!
actually,i don’t know what you guys wanted me to send as a comment. Anyway,i think saying THANKS will do.i also want you to know that i simply loved your whole ‘pepper paint’ stuff especially all you mixtures.
actually,i don’t know what you guys wanted me to send as a comment. Anyway,i think saying THANKS will do.i also want you to know that i simply loved your whole ‘pepper paint’ stuff especially all your mixtures.
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