Rainbow in a Bottle

Besides making cookies, a fun thing to do with the Rainbow Dust Colored Sugar would be to get a small clear bottle with a tight-fitting lid and layer the colors into it. For a rainbow bottle pour the sugar in the order as shown in the color mixing instructions. Click here for the Rainbow Dust Colored Sugar instructions. You may want to be creative and add sugar in any color order. To give it a unusual look layer different amounts also. When you’re finished seal the bottle closed in a tight-fitting lid.

 

RAINBOW DUST
Colored Sugar

Ingredients: 1/2 cup sugar Food colors (see how to mix colors below) Directions: Put sugar in a resealable plastic bag. Pick the color you want to make below, and add the food colors to sugar in bag. Seal bag closed. Squeeze the sugar in the sealed bag until it becomes colored. Store sugar in this sealed bag. This will make ˝ cup colored sugar.

PASTEL COLORS
Color	Number of Drops of Liquid Food Color
Pink	1 drop red
Peach	4 drops yellow and 1 drop red
Pale yellow	2 drops yellow
Lime green	3 drops yellow and 1 drop green
Baby blue	2 drops blue
Lavender	1 drop red and 1 drop blue
BRIGHT COLORS
Color	Number of Drops of Liquid Food Color
Red	10 drops red
Orange	2 drops yellow and 2 drops red
Yellow	4 drops yellow
Green	8 drops green
Blue	5 drops blue
Purple	3 drops red and 2 drops blue

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