I know it sounds weird, but my husband can’t have red 40. He breaks out in hives. I want to make Christmas cookies this year and I can’t find any dye made without red 40. I thought kosher would be the ticket, but no. I tried shopping in the UK, but all the dye was imported from the US and I assume had red 40 in it even though it’s banned in most of (or all of) Europe.

I saw a recipe for homemade red dye and it was a lot more work than I am willing to put in (boil beets for 4 hours—no thanks!)

Topics: cooking, baking, cookies, dye, red