New holiday, new goodies! And the seasons just keep getting better and better as the year furthers along. Next up is Easter and these homemade carrot sprinkles are the perfect companion to your cookies, cupcakes, cakes, you name it. Forget putting a Bird on it (thanks Portlandia), this is the year for putting a carrot on it!
Cupcakes? Carrot. Cookies with frosting on in it? Carrot. Smoothie? Carrot too. Even lonely salads need a carrot on it. Not just the real stuff that grows from the ground but the ones you pipe from a plastic bag.
Homemade sprinkles are actually easy to make, despite how they seem like a lot of work. The batter comes together in a cinch and the only difficult part is waiting for the darn things to dry out. And don’t think that just because you waited a couple of hours that they are ready to go either! Because they are smaller, they are also more fragile and need all the time they can get to dry out. Give them at least overnight or 8+ hours. By then they should just pop right off of the wax or parchment paper.
Watch my garden grow…
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PinIngredients
- 1/2 c. powdered sugar
- 1/2 tsp. arrowroot powder
- 2 tsp. brown rice syrup (or corn syrup)
- 1 tsp. nondairy milk
- 1/4 tsp. vanilla extract
- Natural food coloring (you will need red, yellow, and green)
Instructions
- Whisk together the powdered sugar and arrowroot powder in a bowl. Add the brown rice syrup, nondairy milk and vanilla extract and mix until a thick paste is formed. Add more liquid or powdered to get the desired consistency (you need thick that doesn’t run easily).
- Place about 1/3 of the mix into another small bowl and color with the green food coloring. For the remainder of the mix, use 2 drops red and 4 drops yellow to create orange and stir until uniform.
- Place both colors into their own plastic baggie and cut a small slit on one side.
- On a baking sheet lined with parchment or wax paper, pipe the carrot base by making a small outline of a question mark. Pipe 3 lines for the stems, making the middle stem the longest.
- Allow to set overnight or for at least 8+ hours.
These make approximately 1/3 c. of sprinkles and can be stored in an air-tight container for several weeks, though I have a feeling they don’t need to be stored once you use them as a garnish for whatever it is that you choose. Which by the way, keep your eyes peeled because these homemade carrot sprinkles are going to be making another appearance in the near future…
Alyssa @ RenaissanceRunnerGirl
March 19, 2015 at 2:10 pmThese are adorable! I’m going to try and whip up a batch of carrot cake muffins just so I have an excuse to try them out.
Cara
March 19, 2015 at 6:00 pmMaking carrot cake muffins is a MUST. What a cute idea to add these sprinkles to them, I wanna see a picture!
Vanessa @ VeganFamilyRecipes.com
March 19, 2015 at 1:02 pmJust came across your blog and I immediately fell in love with these adorable sprinkles! Pinned them so that I can make them tomorrow 🙂
★★★★★
Cara
March 19, 2015 at 6:01 pmHi Vanessa! So happy you found your way over here…looks like my trail of sprinkles worked 😉
Caitlin
March 19, 2015 at 11:13 amthese are the cutestttt. you are a magical unicorn dressed as a lady.
Cara
March 19, 2015 at 6:02 pmHAHA. I will now make a shirt with this saying. And a picture. You are scrumptulescent.
Nicole {VeganShowOff.com}
March 19, 2015 at 10:27 amThese are so freaking adorable! I have a feeling that my carrots wouldn’t turn out quite as nice as yours though. I have the most unsteady hands ever! Looks easy though and think I might give these a shot!
Cara
March 19, 2015 at 6:14 pmI think yours would be just as fabulous! I have quite the shaky hand myself so you have nothing to worry about 🙂
Vicky
March 19, 2015 at 9:56 amAwesome Care!
★★★★★
Cara
March 19, 2015 at 6:14 pmThank you Vicky!
Tamar
March 19, 2015 at 8:08 amThese are adorable! It would be even better if you would encourage folks to stop using disposable plastic bags however. Real pastry bags are easy to wash and no plastic contribution to the land fill or worse. We’ve made enough plastic film to wrap the entire Earth six times.
Cara
March 19, 2015 at 6:15 pmThank you Tamar 🙂
Jaime
March 19, 2015 at 7:34 amWhere did u get your food coloring from?
Cara
March 19, 2015 at 7:38 amI really like Color Garden’s all natural food coloring 🙂 You can find them on Abe’s Market or even Amazon.
cLEM @ tHE vEGAN cOOKIE fAIRY
March 19, 2015 at 6:41 amThis. is. GENIUS.
★★★★★
Cara
March 19, 2015 at 6:15 pmYou are too kind! xo
Beth E.
March 19, 2015 at 6:37 amCara! You are so a genius! These are adorable!!!
One question: did you make them in an exclamation point shape? The instructions say question mark, but I don’t see the curve. Just checking.
Cara
March 19, 2015 at 7:03 amThank you so much Beth!! And I did mean a question mark, yup. You don’t see the curve because the sprinkle batter begins to slightly spread and fill in, leaving it heavy on the top and thinner on the bottom like a carrot shape 🙂