Bake a Bouquet

Text, styling, and photography by Esther Shaindy Leshkowitz

Baking bread is an art already, so why not up your game and paint your sourdough loaves?

You’ll need gel food coloring (I used Chefmaster) and a set of cheap paintbrushes. Choose your design and colors, then make a color palette on a plastic plate. Paint the dough while raw. You can touch it up after it’s baked.

Here are a few tips:

Some people suggest diluting the food coloring with water or vodka (which dries faster), but I found it better to lighten colors with white, since it ran less.