How to Make Colored Cooking Oils

Colored cooking oil adds a decorative touch to dishes or craft projects such as Easter eggs. Use any colorless oil such as canola, vegetable, safflower or almond oil as your base. Dying the oil is simply a matter of choosing the color and mixing it in. You must use an oil-based food dye as opposed to the usual water-based color. Water-based dye will separate and bead in the oil. Oil-based dyes are typically used for dying chocolates, and they mix thoroughly into any fat-based product.