Blue food coloring

blushingbride_08

I'm making a blue velvet cake for LO bday. It just dawned on me that the coloring stains. Should I risk getting my house covered with blue stains? I have light colored carpet throughout the house and the party will be at my home. By the way the blue goes with my LO bday theme of Cookie Monster.so the color is kind of important.

1026pumpkin

Can you have the party outside?  If not, I'd be hesitant to serve anything to small children that stains.

amaite

Personally, I would skip the food coloring. If the cake isn't blue, I don't think it takes away from the theme at all.

 

ChristyML

amaite:

Personally, I would skip the food coloring. If the cake isn't blue, I don't think it takes away from the theme at all.

 

I disagree; I think the color of the cake matters (or the outside of the cake anyway).

OP, what if you did blue sprinkles in a white cake? Like the funfetti party cake, only just use blue sprinkles. Or if you did a very very light blue?

ETA: I think this might be weird, but you might not, but what if you bought those cheap Dollar Store plastic table cloths and put them on the floor? They have them in a variety of colors including blue, so it would go with your theme...

RMama2012

Maybe you've tried this but my DH likes to bake and Blue is a difficult color to achieve for some reason.  We tried Blue velvet for the NY Giants a couple times and ended up with greenish cakes.

As far as the party, I wouldnt be able to handle a bunch of kids with a staining cake at my house.  I would make a white domed round cake and cover the entire top with blue sprinkes and then add the eyes, mouth, etc.

ChristyML

RMama2012:

Maybe you've tried this but my DH likes to bake and Blue is a difficult color to achieve for some reason.  We tried Blue velvet for the NY Giants a couple times and ended up with greenish cakes.

What do you use for the coloring? I have never had a problem with getting something blue. 

blushingbride_08

ChristyML:

RMama2012:

Maybe you've tried this but my DH likes to bake and Blue is a difficult color to achieve for some reason.  We tried Blue velvet for the NY Giants a couple times and ended up with greenish cakes.

What do you use for the coloring? I have never had a problem with getting something blue. 

im making blue velvet cupcakes and they came out the same color as the giants. I used 2teaspoons of wilton royal blue food icing and added one toothpick full of violet to a store bought white cake mix. The violet is what makes the cake a deep royal blue instead of turquoise. 

ChristyML

-auntie-:

I wouldn't love the notion of someone making a cake with that level of artifical coloring. A little flower or writing can be scraped off, but a whole cake dyed blue. Ick. I'd be dropping it on your rug to prevent my kid ingesting it.

Well that was random... 

blushingbride_08

-auntie-:

I wouldn't love the notion of someone making a cake with that level of artifical coloring. A little flower or writing can be scraped off, but a whole cake dyed blue. Ick. I'd be dropping it on your rug to prevent my kid ingesting it.

Or you could simply say " no thank you."  I hope your kid doesn't have lovely manners like you.

blushingbride_08

Everyone loved the cake and there weren't any messes. Thanks everyone.

sugar212

Its probably not going to stain once the cake is baked, but be careful with that much dye, it is really bad for you, especially little ones. I would feel really bad, but I wouldn't let my daughter eat that since she can't have much artificial dye without getting sick.