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Harmlessly Coloring Icing

4 servings

Ingredients

• icing (basic recipe) (as needed)
• grated chocolate (for brown) (a little)
• beetroot juice/Breton (for pink or deep red) (a little)
• violet juice (for blue) (a little)
• lemon sugar or saffron (for yellow) (a little)
• brandy (some drops)
• 35 g raw coffee (for green)
• spinach leaves, crushed (alternatively for green) (a little)

Instructions

1. Color the icing according to the basic recipe in the following way: For brown, omit the lemon juice and stir some grated chocolate into the mixture.
2. Pink or deep red can be achieved by adding a smaller or larger amount of beetroot juice.
3. Blue is colored with violet juice, yellow with lemon sugar or a little saffron, to which a few drops of brandy are added.
4. For green, place the egg white designated for the sugar with the raw coffee in a small pot and let it sit overnight, which will make it green the next day; alternatively, use the juice from crushed spinach leaves.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.