Colorful bottomless cheesecake (Product test: Coloring foods from Eat a Rainbow)

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Baking with children is colorful! The simple recipe for a colorful bottomless cheesecake is ideal for experimenting with food coloring.

Like many children, my children also love colorful things! No matter whether delicious, colorful cake icing like our juicy marble cake, the purple colored Happy Mermaid cake or simply colorful sprinkles on our brightly colored party snacks – the motto is clearly “colorful is trump!”

And since my kids love colorful cakes so much, today we're not only baking a baseless cheesecake, but at the same time we're experimenting with natural powder colors - with the coloring foods from Eat a Rainbow.

Coloring foods from Eat a Rainbow

We color our delicious bottomless cheesecake with the coloring foods from Eat a Rainbow. I'm really excited about the pretty colors, which can be pastel or brightly mixed depending on the amount of color powder - of course, we love it colorful too! What really impressed me, however, was that the colors of Eat a Rainbow are 100% natural - and therefore 0% artificial - and do not contain any colors or preservatives!

What are “coloring foods”

As the name suggests, “coloring foods” are food ingredients that have a strong color intensity and therefore color. These food ingredients are extracted from colorful fruits, vegetables and edible plants using physical processes and water.

In contrast to natural food colors, which are usually obtained using chemical solvents and other additives or can also contain animal products, the coloring foods do not contain any dyes or preservatives and are therefore completely natural and even vegan.

Experiments for the minis: Magic with the coloring foods from Eat a Rainbow

Your minis can experiment nicely with the colors of Eat a Rainbow . For example, you can determine how the color intensity of the colors changes depending on the amount of color powder. Or what colors are created when you mix different colors together. That's very impressive!

What's even more impressive is that your kids can make magic with two colors from the color palette of Eat a Rainbow – Pink & Violet. Depending on whether your minis add lemon juice or baking powder to the colors, they will change color. My minis found this very exciting! (Pssst – the magic trick has to do with the pH of the colors’ surroundings ;)

My tips for your cheesecake

As simple as the recipe for a cheesecake is, there are a few tips that you should consider for a great baking result:

1. The baking ingredients should be at room temperature .
2. The cheesecake should not be baked to hot (160-170°C top/bottom heat), otherwise it will be too dark. (If you notice that it is still getting dark, cover it with aluminum foil.)
3. If a dome forms, turn down the temperature of the oven.
4. Open the oven as little as possible.
5. However, after half an hour of baking, you should open it briefly and run a sharp knife along the edge of the springform pan . This will also prevent a dome from forming and the surface of the cheesecake from cracking.
6. The cheesecake should not bake too long. It is ready when the center is still slightly wobbly. Once cooled, the cheesecake will firm up.
7. Leave the cheesecake in the oven and cool down with the oven door open (Put a wooden spoon in the oven door so the heat can escape and your cheesecake doesn't get a “cold shock”.)
8. The cheesecake should cool down in the baking pan.
9. Take your cheesecake from the baking pan when it is completely cooled .
10. A cheesecake tastes best when it is kept cool. (But that's a matter of taste 😉)

Recipe for a colorful, bottomless cheesecake

Children like things colorful! And since a light dough, like the cheesecake dough, accepts food colors very well, this baseless cheesecake is wonderful for little color experiments with the minis!

You can make the simple recipe for the baseless cheesecake very quickly with your minis. But it's coloring with food coloring in all the colors of the rainbow that makes this baking experience a big highlight.

My kids were able to gain some exciting insights while experimenting with the food colors:

• how the colors change when stirred into the dough
• how the color intensity is influenced by the amount of food coloring
• that new colors are created when colors are mixed

Ingredients for a colorful, bottomless cheesecake

Dough

(Little tip: the cheesecake is particularly good when the ingredients are all at room temperature and not fresh from the fridge!)

• 5 eggs (5 yolks / 5 egg whites)
• 230 g sugar
• 1 packet of vanilla sugar (15g)
• 60 g (spelled) flour
• 1 packet of vanilla pudding
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 1 pinch of salt
• 1000 g quark
• Natural food colors from Eat a rainbow*

Decoration

• 20 g chocolate (we used pink cake icing)
• colorful chocolate beans

Baking accessories

Kitchen scales, 2 mixing bowls, hand mixer, 26 springform pan, baking paper, dough scraper, spoon, approx. 6 bowls for coloring the dough, wooden spoon, sharp knife

Preparation

• First, line the bottom of the springform pan for the bottomless cheesecake with baking paper.
• Now you separate the eggs (Do you know the trick with the plastic bottle? With this, your minis can really help you separate the eggs.)
• Beat the egg yolks with the sugar and vanilla sugar in the mixing bowl until foamy
• In the next step, add flour, vanilla pudding powder and baking powder to the sugar-egg mixture
• The quark is then stirred into the dough.
• Now beat the egg whites together with a pinch of salt in a separate bowl to form a fluffy egg white (make sure that the beaters are clean, otherwise the egg whites will not be stable)
• Using a dough scraper, fold the egg whites briefly into the remaining dough.

Now the mixture for the baseless cheesecake is ready and you could already bake it. Once you and your minis have decided on a pretty COLORFUL cheesecake without a base, now it's time for the really fun task: coloring the cheesecake with the food colors of your choice!

• Divide the dough evenly into six bowls
• Now stir the different food colors into the individual bowls. As already described, the minis can experiment wonderfully with the food colors.

• Before you put the cheesecake in the springform pan, set the oven to 170°C top/bottom heat.
• Your child can then add the colored portions of dough, tablespoon by tablespoon, into the springform pan - this will make a wonderfully colorful cheesecake!
• Now the cake bakes for about 50-60 minutes (as always, the baking time depends on the oven). To ensure that your cheesecake turns out really well, you should follow the baking tips for cheesecakes.
• After 30 minutes of baking, run a sharp knife between the edge of the springform cake and the cheesecake to prevent a dome from forming and the surface of the cheesecake from cracking.
• Once your baseless cheesecake is finished baking, turn off the oven and put a wooden spoon in the oven door and let the cheesecake cool in the oven for at least half an hour.
• We then decorated the cooled colorful cheesecake without a base with some cake icing and chocolate lentils, but even without chocolate lentils it is a colorful highlight!

The pretty, colorful cheesecake without a base is now ready and can now delight your eyes and even more your taste buds 😉

We wish you and your kids a lot of fun mixing colors and then snacking!

Yours, Lia

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A colorful thank you

A colorful thank you goes out to “Eat a Rainbow“ for the pretty, coloring foods. My minis & I had so much fun experimenting with the colors and baking. Thank you also for trusting us to evaluate your product with respect and our honest opinion. 

A heartfelt “thank you”!

Notice: A PR sample was provided to me for this posting. This article is partly a collaboration. On my blog I only present products, companies, (online) shops etc. that I am personally convinced of and that offer added value for me and you and will facilitate or multiply our “Baking pleasure” . If I discover a product through a possible cooperation that helps us to be happy, I will present it in an article based on my own written opinion.

Have you baked the recipe?

How exciting! We're really happy about that! We are pleased that we were able to delight you with our recipe. Feel free to share your treat with us on Instagram using the hashtag #backenmitminis.