Over at Slashfood, The Skinny Chef has some advice and recipes for colored frosting and how to "Build a Better Cupcake:"
It just takes some inexpensive decorating tips and bags -- about $5 for a small set. I avoid using artificial tints to color my icing because some food coloring is derived from coal tar and is suspected of causing hyperactivity in children. Yellow dye No. 5 has been thought to worsen asthma symptoms and in the 1970s the FDA banned red dye No. 2 after some studies found that large doses could cause cancer in rats.
Still, everyone I know, including myself, loves colorful, decorative icings so I've come up with ways to safely tint frosting without using a lot of artificial flavorings or colorings.
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