Thanks to a friend on a message board, for giving me a new playdoh recipe, I decided to try my hand at the homemade playdoh again. This time, it would be cooked…let’s start:
First, get a saucepan – I used a 2 quart one – dump in 2 cups of flour.
2 cups of water…
…2 tablespoons of oil…
…1/3 cup of salt…
…and 1/4 cup cream of tartar. Don’t worry, I didn’t throw the whole container in there. I knew you were worried about that.
Put the saucepan on the stove over medium heat.
Start stirring!!
Getting there…
Ta-da!!!! Yaaaaay! Success!!!!
Now to give it some color. You can use food coloring like I chose to do, or you can use Kool-Aid or all natural ingredients to add color, such as ground mustard or cocoa powder. Like I said, I chose to use food coloring. I also chose to use disposable latex gloves, as I did not want to be the mom with weird colored hands and then have to pass it off as being a super cool tattoo.
You could make the whole batch one color if you wish, but I wanted to do many different colors, so I scooped out a small amount – about 1/2 cup to 1 cup and put it into a bowl.
Add your food coloring – I added about three drops.
Mix by hand… and viola! I then repeated the process for different colors, rinsing my gloves and the bowl after each color. Next, place your dough into containers or a ziploc bag. I just used the smallest Gladware container I had – I think it is the 1 cup size.
Let the dough cool before you seal it up. Out of the fridge it should last about 3 months. In the fridge even longer! WIN!
