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This is an incredibly cute idea book. I loved all of the options for creating colorful, natural food. Unfortunately, it is SO much easier to use regular food coloring...and it doesn't require getting as many ingredients. Regardless, it gives a bunch of ideas for making really cute foods that are fantastic for parties.
Really beautiful. Well set-out and appealing to young and old; children through to retirees will love this unicorn food.
This book allows me to make my children happy (with rainbow-colored food) and me happy (because I hate to see them eat artificial dyes). The recipes are imaginative and should please color-desiring kids and adults. I plan to use these natural coloring techniques in other recipes, as well!
"No unicorns were harmed in the making of this food!" That was a relief to know I did not want to ruin a little girl's existence by recommending we use actual unicorns in our recipes! Actually, this is quite a delightful book with recipes in it, including pictures to show what it should look like. Warning: Rainbows everywhere! But really, who wants boring, bland foods? This book will help you with that dilemma. If you, your child, or teen like unicorns, this book is for you. I want to make several things from it myself. The recipes are easy to read and follow. Great book!!!!
It was a delight to be cooking from such a fun recipe book! I often found myself feeling overwhelmed cooking - am I using ethical ingredients, is this FODMAP friendly, is this nourishing my body and mind properly - but this was just FUN and that was such a welcome relief. Great for parties!
This was a fun cookbook! I have to admit some of these were a little much for me, like that cake, not happening! There were enough recipes that were easy enough though. My kids even made few of these with me.
As the book itself says: "Why eat boring when you can enjoy a rainbow-coloured noodle bowl for dinner? "
This is a great book with recipes for natural food colours, using natural food colour and beautiful photos.
A brilliantly colorful cookbook filled to the brim with magical recipes, including rainbow pancakes, a unicorn cake, galaxy cupcakes, and more. I would be lying if I said I didn't want to attempt to cook ( and eat ) every single one of these delicious recipes. They all look so mouthwatering! I have a few friends who have little girls, and I'm sure this book would come in handy when planning all sorts of magical birthday parties.
A huge thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for sending me a digital copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. I truly appreciate it!
This is an awesome book! There are so many fun recipes for everything from cake, to ice cream to ice cubes! Kids and adults alike will enjoy making, and eating!, this wonderful creations!
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Sandra makes magic in the kitchen. She shares her fantastic and colorful recipes made with naturals ingredients. My favorites are the pink hummus, the Unicorn maki rolls and the homemade natural dyes.
I love the natural ways to dye foods and how colorful these recipes are. I think this would be a great way to get your kids to eat foods they may normally not be open to trying.
Filled with pictures of colourful food and easy to follow recipes. Im going to try out the rainbow pancakes,
The recipes in this book are super easy to follow and end up looking incredibly aesthetically pleasing! What I loved most about this book though was the chapter on obtaining natural food coloring using an assortment of fruit of veggies. This really adds an extra level of creativity when trying to make rainbow-colored food and really shows just how rainbow-y nature actually is (in terms of food). The only reason why I'm taking one star off is that I personally would have liked to see a wider variety recipes, especially savory recipes. There were a few savory recipes at the beginning, but over 75% of the recipes focused on cakes, and other sweet desserts. However, this was still a super fun recipe book to go through and it definitely adds a lot of life into one's cooking.
I really wanted to love this book...mostly b/c I have a daughter who is obsessed with unicorns. I found that the recipes fell short of being creative. Many simply relied on "add blue food coloring" to everyday foods.
4☆ Perfect Easy to bake Recipies-netgalley-ultimate Prepared to be dazzled!!
Unicorn food is the perfect recipe book to create the newest craze in food.
It's colourful, quirky, fun and delicious. Especially if you adore unicorns and love experimenting with baking.
Let your creative side go wild!
To be honest I think this recipe book would be the perfect accompaniment for a girls/ teens/ adults birthday party.
The recipes are fun, each recipie has a photograph so you can see what your aiming for.
Some of the recipes are certainly quirky and I'm not convinced I would want to eat them purely because of the colours... for example Croque- Unicorn .... which is basically cheese on toast... But the cheese is dyed using food colouring. One of my fave recipies but just the thought of multi-coloured cheese kind of puts me off.
But that is just one of many that would certainly appeal to others.
The ingredients are measured in grams. Pretty straight forward ingredients. But one must have ingredient is food colouring. They recommend using natural food colouring.
Some of my favourite recipes within the book are
* Unicorn Cake with swiss meringue buttercream - which is my next baking project I have everything ready to bake & decorate. I can't wait.
* Rainbow Tiramisu - with mascarpone cheese, raspberries, pink sponges, chantilly cream.
*Swiss Roll, rainbow style - with a cream cheese & mascarpone filling and strawberries with a blue sponge.
*Unicorn Cheesecake - with sweet biscuit base, Greek yogurt & cream cheese, lemon juice & gelatine, 3 different coloured swirls for the cream cheese topping.
*Cosmic Doughnuts - These are baked doughnuts not fried! , these are topped with a blue icing sugar glaze with a dash of lemon juice.
*Rainbow Cupcakes - strawberry fruit and vanilla extract sponge, with a cream cheese & mascarpone frosting split into 4 different colours to make rainbow swirls. Topped with candy floss
These are just a few of the many scrumptious and dazzling recipies included.
I am definitely going to be recommending Unicorn food to my friends and family.
I adore baking and can't wait to try out some of the recipies.
If you want to try your hand at unicorn baking. Then definitely pick up a copy of this book. Unicorns might be the latest craze but I definitely think you will get a lot of love and use from this book.
Also if you have children that you want to get them to try new food then adding a lil flare to it could definitely encourage trying new food.
Good Luck and Happy Baking!
It is pretty obvious that the author is a food stylist and an excellent one at that.
She presents many innovative food presentation ideas and although they seem aimed at children they can be modified to entertain many an adult.
I was interested in this book as a way to help my daughter eat healthier. There are some neat ideas to that effect. For example, I hope that the unicorn sushi might help restart the love for sushi she had as a toddler. On the other hand this book is mostly sweets and I don't need to help her appreciate those! That being said, I could see one of the sweets being a centerpiece at her next birthday party.
“Unicorn Food” is one of those books that’s fun too look at, but you probably won’t cook anything out of unless you have a unicorn party to go to and you want to bring a treat. Turns out, unicorn food mostly consists of sugar and artificial coloring.
Cute!
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Thank you to Ms. Sandra Mahut, Quarto Publishing Group – Quarry, and Netgalley for a free for honest review advanced reader copy of “Unicorn Food: Natural Recipes for Edible Rainbows.”
While I am not the greatest of unicorn aficionado’s in my social circles, I could not pass up this delightful looking book from the second I saw that adorable unicorn cake on the front cover. Everything within, perfectly following suit to that first post setter, was just as delightful. Every page is covered in recipes about how to add magic and color to all the dishes, drinks, dessert, and savory eats, most of which you are already eating. Except now with a touch more magic.
Add a few drops of color here and there, and almost everything becomes that much more spectacular. There are noodles in crayon colors, grilled cheese sandwiches that when pulled apart become rainbows, color changing drinks, cakes and sweets to delight, and so much more.
The book is short, sweet, incredibly easy to read (and the recipes within are incredibly easy in enact, as well). I can see myself picking up copies of this for a few friends and for my very young nieces in the future, too.
This has to be THE most magical cookbook I’ve ever seen! The colors alone are creatively unicorn ALL THE WAY!
Recipes include Savoury and Sweet!
This cookbook also includes how to make super pretty colors that ANY unicorn would love!!!
To me, this is a really sweet and magical reading book for any little child who loves the magic of unicorns and the magic of life and all of it’s possibilities…a magical experience through a picture book of yummy looking dreams!
I wish there was a boxed meal service that offered Unicorn Food….ahhhh…yet another possibility that COULD someday happen!