not-so-Red Velvet

emzolita

Has anyone ever dyed a red velvet cake anything other than red?
I know dark colours would work like blue or purple, but would yellow and orange (seen as there's the darkness of the cocoa powder in it?)

I want to make a rainbow red velvet cake for Pride.

cheers, Emma

Stench Blossoms

That sounds lovely.

I've never tried it myself but I find if you add the colouring to the buttermilk instead of the cocoa then you don't need as much. I'm gonna attempt to do this now as well

shinikins

I've had red velvet made with white chocolate powder, it was more pink than red though!! Maybe if you can locate some white chocolate powder and substitute for some of the cocoa, your colours will be more pronounced.

Acoshla

You could just make a madeira cake and colour it, or did you particularly want Red Velvet cake? Red velvet is basically just a buttermilk cake so if you got a madeira type recipe with buttermilk you could use that and dye it any colour you like.

Faith

I've made a green one for Paddy's Day. Pictures here. They weren't the most attractive things in the world, but the other colour worked fine. I'm not sure about lighter colours, but maybe if you used a paste, you could use more of it to get closer to the colour you need?

babaduck

My nieces & nephews have me driven demented for coloured birthday cakes - Nephew wanted a cake with blue icing, Godniece wanted a red vanilla cake with purple icing and Niece 2 wants a strawberry cake with rainbow icing...

I use gel paste colours to tint the cake mix - paler colours need more, darker colours need less (the purple icing was a lesson in less is more as it looked like a decomposing body before I adjusted it!)

loveisdivine

Just google rainbow cake. They are pretty popular, we make them alot.

Swampy

check out this badboy

linky

emeraldstar

Too pretty to eat!

Acoshla

I have a wedge of rainbow cake in the freezer that I kept just to look at from time to time