These organic sprinkles are just made from just two ingredients – shredded coconut and fruit or vegetable juice. It really is that easy to make colourful natural sprinkles without any e numbers, artificial chemicals or other nasties. They do not use any colouring from bottles and are sugar-free.

Some food colourings are called natural but the colouring may not actually be that healthy as chemical processes are still involved. By just using fruit juice, veg juice and spices you can ensure the sprinkles are healthy, and it’s a lot cheaper than buying food colouring. It’s more fun also, as you’re not sure what colour you will end up with – see the red cabbage with baking soda.

I’ve tried a variety out below and made several different greens, purples and oranges. So depending on what you have available you should be able to make a rainbow of colours. If you only want to buy one vegetable to do the colouring I would suggest red cabbage as it makes purple and with a bit of baking soda also makes blue that drys green and yellow shades.

The natural sprinkles have a very mild, but pleasant taste and the coconut is nice and crispy after being dried. Much tastier than the chemical cocktail of traditional sprinkles.

Green Natural Sprinkles With Spirulina, Wheatgrass and Red Cabbage

You can use 2 tbsp of water with 1/2 tsp of spirulina to make a dark green colour. Using dried wheatgrass to the same proportions gives a light, and unsurprisingly, grass green colour. If you juice red cabbage and add 1/4 tsp baking powder for 2 tbsp of red cabbage juice you will get a bright blue colour. If you’re doing something fresh where wet sprinkles are fine you could use these blue sprinkles. However if you want them dried then they will turn a greenly and yellow colour, see below.

Yellow and Orange Natural Sprinkles with Turmeric and Carrot

Both carrot juice and turmeric sprinkles end up a similar colour when dried so do whatever one you fancy. Juice some carrots and mix with the shredded coconut to make orange sprinkles but once they are dried they turn more of a yellow orange colour. If you don’t have a juicer see how to juice without a juicer. Mix 1/2 a teaspoon of turmeric with 2 tablespoons of water to make the turmeric dye. This doesn’t make the sprinkles taste of turmeric as you only taste a tiny amount at a time.

Purple Natural Sprinkles with Red Cabbage and Blackberries

Both of these end up the same colour when dried, but the blackberry one’s taste slightly better. Juice some red cabbage for the purple dye, or blend and then push through a sieve. For a berry purple you can use any dark berries such as blackcurrants, blackberries or blueberries and simply push thru a sieve to get the liquid to dye the coconut.

Red Sprinkles with Beetroot

No surprises here that beetroot is used for a natural red colour. You can either boil diced beetroot in water for 5 mins or just use the juice from vacuum packed beetroot (without vinegar) to make the red sprinkles.

That’s all the colours and combinations we’ve made so far. Mix together to make a natural vibrant sprinkle mix. Different desserts call for different coloured sprinkles – we used three different greens on top of a chocolate mint cake. Have you made any different colours? Let us know in the comments or on social media.

Cashew Vanilla Fudge

These sprinkles go great in all recipes just like my cashew vanilla fudge.

Natural means from nature but sadly it’s often misused to sell people products that aren’t healthy. Lots of additives and refined ingredients that are harmful to health can still be called natural.

That’s why I call these sprinkles natural and organic, even though they wouldn’t be organic unless all of the ingredients are organic. They are full of good stuff and all from nature with a tiny bit of blending.