If you prefer to avoid artificial ingredients, there are natural products you can use to colour your baked goods instead. It’s best to use powdered ingredients where possible. If using a liquid, you’ll need to use more to get a strong enough colour, which will potentially change the texture and flavour of your bake. Strawberry frosting– naturally dyed pink! Red and pink natural colours Some of their individually-sold colours are vegan but others are not. I always recommend their set of food colouring pastes because these are free from animal-derived e-numbers and are vegan-friendly! PME pastes are what I always use in my baking recipes that call for food colouring, like my rainbow cake. Rainbow cake with yellow, orange, red, green and blue coloured frosting! Is Colour Splash food colouring vegan?

Most Colour Splash food colouring is vegan-friendly and does not contain any animal-derived e-numbers. It is labelled as vegetarian rather than vegan but this is due to a risk of cross-contamination with milk products. Natural food colouring alternatives You can naturally dye your bakes yellow by using turmeric powder. This is a potent spice so I recommend using only a little bit. I don’t imagine a turmeric-flavoured cake would taste very nice! Did you know that not all food colouring is vegan? This post will tell you everything you need to know about choosing suitable colouring for baking, which brands are vegan-friendly and alos how to colour your food naturally.Food colouring is super fun to use and can help to make your cakes and bakes look more on-theme. It can also be used to help the colour ‘match’ the flavour, for example, adding green food colouring to mint chocolate chip ice cream. I’ve written this post to help you understand which ingredients to watch out for, as well as my favourite vegan food colouring brands in the UK. Does food colouring contain animal products? Transform plain cakes into bright, eye-catching creations with Colour Splash Food Colouring Gels. These highly concentrated gels add instant edible colour to icing, sugar paste, modelling paste, royal icing, marzipan, buttercream, and cake mixes.

Please Note: Customised or personalised items are excluded from the regulations and cannot be returned. Due to food safety concerns, ready-made cakes are not subject to return unless considered faulty or not fit for purpose. Products from our Liquid Food Colouring range are used to add colour to royal icing and buttercream. It can also be painted directly onto cakes. As liquid food colouring is not as concentrated as gels and pastes, it tends to be used to create a lighter pastel shade opposed to a more intense colour. They can be used in the same way as gels and pastes by simply mixing into icing and cake mixture. Sugarflair Liquid Food Colouring

Summary – Is food colouring vegan?

These high-quality and fantastic value gel food colouring colours are great for adding bursts of colour to your next celebration cake, perfect for making a rainbow birthday cake or decorating and finishing a unicorn cake! Because the gel is so concentrated you only need to use a little at a time making Colour Splash Gels highly cost effective and great for busy, colour loving, bakers. To ensure your icing is as white as possible and not an off-white colour, which can be the case in some instances, Sugarflair Superwhite is a powder which can be added to icing.

There are a couple of other non-vegan ingredients that are used to dye foods, like Tyrian purple and squid ink, but they are not at all common in the UK and I haven’t seen any baking food colouring brands that use these ingredients. I noticed that more and more brands are using natural alternatives to artificial dyes these days, even for the reds and pinks! Vegan red food colouring Why might food colouring not be vegan, I hear you ask? This isn’t because of eggs, honey or milk like you might expect- it’s actually due to some of the e-numbers used. Certain e-numbers are used to give these liquids their bright colours and not all of them are free from animal byproducts. To make orange, you can use a combination of turmeric and any of the red powders. Alternatively, something like carrot powder will work too. Natural green colouring With a highly concentrated formula, you don’t need to use a large quantity of the Sugarflair Maximum Concentrated Paste Colours to obtain the desired results. This is particularly well suited for colouring fondant, flower paste, buttercream and cake mixes. It can also be used as paint if a small amount of water or rejuvenator spirit is added. Since writing my post about vegan sprinkles, it occurred to me that food colouring is another thing that newbie vegans may struggle with. I know that when I first went vegan, I used plenty of non-vegan food colouring in my bakes, simply because I had no idea!

Our Sugarflair NatraDi Natural Food Colouring Paste is 100% natural and is suitable for sugar paste icing, buttercream and cake mixes. Available in popular colours, Sugarflair NatraDi Natural Food Colouring Pastes enable you to add colour to icing and cake mixes without using artificial ingredients.