Try shredded coconut and dye that green, and then use to top baked goods. Or dye white icing for cookies or even brownies.

I'm very sensitive to red food dye (rashes/itching) and at leatsd I know what I can avoid and what I can enjoy. I'd take a choice of dyed/not items just in case other people are also sensitive.

Just a few drops will be better than "dump a whole bottle"....

I would like to thank the kind lady that sent me this link:
http://www.bakerella.com/red-velvet-revisited/

Sure enough. One entire bottle of food coloring.
Thanks...

I'm glad you asked this question Sissyz. And happy you got your answer already. I am thinking of making Irish Soda Bread muffins for some friends this St. Patrick's Day and thought it would be fun to make them green. But I don't have much experience with food coloring so wasn't too sure how to proceed.

Thanks.

Kate

I add green food coloring to cookies, cake batter, bread dough, whatever I'm doing for St. Pat's. I've added it to popcorn balls and rice krispie treats too.

Never a whole bottle, though, I add a bit, see how dark it is,then add more until it's the shade I want.

Annie

I can taste too much food coloring...I have eaten that red cake with the whole bottle of food coloring....and it's bitter.
Don't dump a bottle of food coloring into your cake unless you don't care how it tastes.

Try the higher quality paste food coloring instead of the bottle - you need a lot less to get intense color.

Sissyz, glad you asked! I have been thinking "green" lately too, for St. Patrick's Day. I hope you don't mind me tagging a question to your original one.

Whoa... one whole bottle of green food coloring!! :-O I don't think I can ever get over my head to eat the cupcakes!

Sushi, coloring just the coconut sounds better... but how do you get the color even without using a lot of the coloring? Any tips?

I also want to make green bread. I wonder if spinach is green enough so I won't have to use food coloring in my bread. Any thoughts?

Al

if it's not too late, the food coloring paste really is the best way to go for this sort of thing. I haven't seen it in regular grocery stores, as a rule the easiest place to find this food coloring is in the cake decorating section of a hobby store such as Hobby Lobby or Micheal's. Some Wal Mart stores carry it, basically any store that sells Wilton cake decorating items will likely have it.

The difference is huge in both taste and intensity of color!

1/8 a teaspoon of green paste would give you a good solid green about the same as a bottle of the regular stuff. 1/4-1/2 teaspoon will get you a good solid kelly green. For better greens on the cupcakes a yellow cake mix instead of a white works well - brighter.
Nora

Last year, I made green coconut "grass" for an ice cream cake. I put the coconut into a Zip-Lock & added about 4-5 drops of food coloring into 2 cups coconut. It took a lot of smooshing it around but I ended up with an even grass green coconut. For Kelly green, you'd need a lot of food coloring. I'd guess about a tablespoon.

/tricia

We have a bakery in town that makes a fabulous Blue Velvet Cake, I guess you could do green just the same.

Steve

I agree about just doing a little at a time. A whole bottle could make it so dark that it looks black.

ok, so I've learned alot so far!
I had never heard of the gel food coloring, so I did some research and went to the Wilton's and purchased a tiny bottle of their Kelly Green. I asked the helpful person there and she suggested dipping a toothpick into the gel and swirling it thru the batter.
So I did just that.
WOW!!!
We now have over one dozen green cupcakes cooling on the racks.
We learned the hard way. We made the first batch with the Betty Crocker tube food coloring we got at Jewel. We needed to use the entire tube and you know, Lindac is right!!...you really can taste that awful stuff! We threw the entire batch away. They tasted terrible.
It was the second batch that we used the Wilton food color. These cupcakes look much better and behaved more like you'd expect them to! I took pictures and will post them.
Al, perhaps if you squeezed the liquid out of frozen chopped spinach, and added that to your bread dough you might get green bread??
As you can tell, I am no expert!!

Nora & Tricia, great tips!

Sizzyz, sorry you had to throw the first batch out. What a shame. Did you use coloring paste in your second batch? I should look for paste instead of liquid. I was hoping to use both the spinach and the juice in my bread. I probably will puree the spinach and mix juice & all into the dough to see what will happen. Gonna be interesting!

Al

before baking:

finished cupcake:

why is it, when you ask them, "let me take a picture?", they immediately get goofy??