Nutrition experts recommend eating a colorful diet for a healthy lifestyle. They are, of course, referring to naturally colored foods—berries, oranges, lemons, spinach, etc. But these rainbow foods are much more fun and exciting! I won't condone cooking with unlimited amounts of synthetic food dye, but I can condone unlimited looking at it! Now, on to the essay...
1. Rainbow Pancakes from I Am Mommy have been making their way around the Web. And, did you know this week is National Pancake Week?
2. Some bakers bake layered Rainbow Cakes, but I prefer this bright and swirly version from Omnomicon.
3. Where there's cake, there's cupcakes...specifically, Rainbow Cupcakes from Delicious Delicious Delicious. Can it be my birthday already?
4. Kids (and adults, too, who am I kidding?) get a kick out of Rainbow Cookies. From Dinner Cakes.
5. By far the healthiest option on this list, these Rainbow Wraps from Healthy. Happy. Life. get their color the old-fashioned way—from fruit!
6. Here's another take on Rainbow Cookies by 1773, this time using a rainbow of mini M&M's.
7. And a third...(from Rainbow Stuff).
8. Finally, adorable Rainbow Cupcakes from Abbey Goes Design Scouting. These remind me of a new box of crayons!
Have you ever made rainbow food? How do you add color to your diet?
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So pretty and delicious looking!
Awesome!
The kids used to love it when we added food coloring to their mashed potatoes.
I am having rainbow pancakes this weekend. My kids will love them...Very Cool!! Thanks for the idea.
I have been making colorful food for my kids all their life. what is so wrong with putting some fun into good healthy food. How many of the negative people can say their kids eat a RAINBOW of color in VEGIES . well I can because they see color and associate it with fun. My kids are all teenagers now and eat more vegitables than any one I know. Its all in the presentation people. I have been makeing shrimp rice for years. rice, Baby shrimp, frozen peas. a few drops of yellow food coloring. VERY BRIGHT IN COLOR> one day I did not have any food coloring and the kids would not even touch the rice because they said it did not look the same. no difference in flavor but you see what a difference color can make? I ran a daycare for years and parents could not figure out why their kids would eat vegis at my house and not at home. COLOR- COLOR -COLOR. God made the rainbow for a reason. SO you keep right on makeing those rainbow pancakes mom. I am going to make some this week end for my kids.....
I'm in the middle. It's a cute idea, but it looks gross to me. I wouldn't want to eat all that extra junk, either. We get enough food coloring in foods without adding fuel to the fire. I'll pass.
I think it's cool and I think the kids will like it! I use to add green food coloring to scrambled eggs on St. Patricks day for a special breakfast. It's ok to do once in a while for a special occasion! It makes breakfast fun!
Wow, those are bright pancakes! I didn't see the original story and so I don't know how to make pancakes that bright, but I say once in a while for fun adding a little food coloring is ok. My daughter happily eats her rainbow of veggies and fruits.. I liked that picture of the fruit rainbow.. I will do that sometime.. but as for pancakes-my daughter is happy to have blueberries and syrup on hers. She is 2 1/2 and enjoys a great variety of foods.. including stuffed artichokes! And at her daycare they do green food colorign for dr. seuss week.. green eggs and ham! I probably wouldn't use any other food colorings than the ones they sell in the grocery store. Actually, some of the ones they use for cake icings seem to leave a bad flavor in the icing anyway.. red and blue usually seem to have an aftertaste to me. So, saying that lady shouldn't procreate is little severe, especially if she is only doing these brightly colored things once in a while. Oh, I also use food coloring to make homemade playdough.
These look so pretty but the amount of artificial food coloring in them deters me...