Too much of anything will start to affect the overall structure of dough and affect gluten development. Adding color can be a fun experiment for any pizza maker, but it can be hard to cook. If your total hydration is high and you are using an added ingredient or a different sugar, knowing when the pizza is done can be very tricky.
Believe it or not, egg (whole or yolk) really doesn't give much yellow color to the dough or finished crust. I'm betting on Egg Shade (this is a food coloring/ Google for availability) this is the same coloring used in many Chicago pizzas which gives the crust that rich yellow color. 4 I recently made coloured swirled bread, in which different colours of dough (in my case a coloured and an uncoloured piece) were rolled together and baked in the same loaf to give an interesting novelty appearance.
When I put it into the oven the poke test on the uncoloured dough rose up slowly, but the uncoloured sprang back a bit more quickly. Ingredients: Mozzarella cheese, shredded Pizza sauce Pizza dough (I use the premade dough from Trader Joe's because I think it makes the best crust, but you can either make your own if you're feeling fancy or pick up another variety like Boboli or Pillsbury) Food coloring Desired toppings. Separate into 6 dough balls.
Color your dough by using an electric mixer with the paddle attachment, a small squirt of the food coloring, and mix until the dough is even. Do this for all 5 colors, leave 1 dough ball white. Wipe clean the mixer between each color mix.
Shape your bread! Use a rolling pin, pizza cutter or chopper if you have it. Rainbow pizza anyone?Next, you will need to dye the cheese using food coloring. You will only need 4-5 drops.
Then use a fork, and mix it together. To make the orange and purple, I mixed some of the food coloring together. I used red and yellow to make orange (more yellow than red), and blue and red to make purple.
If you don't like the colors you get, just add a drop or two of one of the. MAGICAL - make dinner magical with this super simple pizza recipe. We bought a healthy store bought veggie crust to save some time - because we were more focused on the making the cheese magical.
Start by gathering your supplies. We found that the GEL food coloring worked best, because the colors were brighter. This.
After I applied the food coloring, I started kneading the dough until the food coloring was completely blended and even. It worked perfectly! Making and using natural food coloring Natural food coloring is easy to make and a great alternative to store-bought food coloring. The best part is that you know exactly what goes into these colorings, unlike the mysterious chemicals often found in food dyes.
Use a water activated powder food coloring, adding at the beginning stages; after proofing the yeast and adding about a cup or two of flour mixed in. This style of food coloring does deepen over time and considering proofing, it will change by the time you are ready to bake.