Dye your pancakes your favorite color. Dye your food from eggs or milk to yogurt. I’m serious.
Growing up my mother would dye our pancakes green for St. Patrick’s Day. When I thought I would pass that tradition on with my kids they started calling for all different colors. At first I thought, “What? Now you want blue and pink pancakes?” That’s what I get for starting a holiday tradition before my kids could grasp the concept that St. Patrick’s Day = GREEN … or maybe I didn’t explain it right. Then I realized it made sense. Wouldn’t you want to eat your favorite color?!?
It’s quick and easier than it sounds. You don’t even have to make your pancakes from scratch. Buy the mix at your local grocery store, add water per instructions, then add a drop or two of food coloring (also found at your local grocery store in the baking isle or amazon of course). For deep, vibrant colors add several drops of food coloring. Keep reading for natural food dye ideas described below.
By the way, dress up ANY holiday with a colorful breakfast, like red and blue for July 4th or green and red for Christmas.
For rainbow pancakes, separate the batter into several small bowls and add food dye. Then you can add the batter to the grill for individual colored pancakes. For rad pancakes, drizzle the colored pancake batter from each bowl together for one pancake. You can also make shapes with cookie cutters.
Yellow food dye mixing into batter 
Food Dyed Pancake Batter 
Pancakes on Plate
As I hinted at the start, you can dye other food too. Don’t stop at pancakes. You can dye your milk for drinking, cereal milk, muffins, a breakfast casserole, yogurt, parfait. Oatmeal or any hot cereal would definitely work. You can dye your eggs … Oh, yes, yes, you can!! My mother, also when I was little, read the story of green eggs and ham and then, as fun as she is, dyed some green eggs for my friends and me to eat. Guess which one person refused to eat green eggs??
Boring Oatmeal 
Pink Oatmeal
It’s simple. You merely add the food coloring and mix (before baking/ grilling/ cooking or just before eating if it’s a more ready-to-eat food like milk, yogurt)
Blue Cereal Milk 
Green Cereal Milk
For natural food dye options, try adding fruits such as raspberries, strawberries, and blueberries. Blend the fruit first and then add to the batter, oatmeal, yogurt, etc. to fully disperse the color. For raspberries you may want to strain out the seeds. This will change the taste of your food but perhaps for the better! Spinach will make green pancakes but is good for hiding in foods since it has a subtle taste and easily hides in what you are making.
By the way, if you want to be a cool parent dye your kids’ food on a special day such as a birthday.
You, like my kids, can do it just because it makes you happy. So go out and Delight your next morning!
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