Birthday cake help?

[patito]

HI

Does anybody know of great way to do kids birthday cake without colouring. I was thinking Lion/tractor etc?? design cake (not fixed so open to ideas). Problem is I live in Spain and can´´t find food colouring. Or if anyone can suggest a natural way to colour.

Would love any suggestions. DS1s Bday is on Thursday and always love to make a cake for his Bday.

Thanks

I was thinking of beetroot which is the standard 'natural' red colour - googled natural food colouring and came up wtih this:

Enjoy yellow. For yellow, add 1 tsp of stale turmeric . Turmeric is often used to give vegan puddings and tofu scrambles that "eggy" shade. This is a good use for turmeric that's past its prime, since stale turmeric is fairly flavor neutral.

Step 2Mash the juice from 14, fresh or thawed, frozen raspberries directly into the icing using a sieve to create blush or pale pink

Step 3Using a fork, mash 1/2 a small avocado until creamy to get pastel green. Mix this into your icing. [The avocado makes your icing thinner, but in a fluffy, pleasant way. ]

Step 4For raspberry purple, using a sieve, mash the juice from 14 fresh or thawed frozen blueberries and 12 fresh or thawed frozen blackberries directly into the icing.

Step 5Experiment and color your world! Other natural sources of color include carrots, beet juice and chlorella.

You could use butter icing and butter icing with cocoa to give you 2 colours which might be enough for a stripy tiger or a spotty dog or something. Hedgehogs are quite east made with cocoa coloured butter icing and cadburys fingers, matchmakers or buttons. Ladybird would be easy, brown face, yellow body and sweets for spots or a butterfly (if not to girly).

For ds's 2nd birthday we had a teddy bear sunbathing on a rug - we coloured the buttericing for the bear with Carob (a bit like cocoa but not bitter) and the rug was the top of the main piece of cake done in fondant.