Red Velvet Cake without Food Dye?
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Anonymous
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Hi, everyone!
I am thinking of making a red velvet cake for the Super Bowl (we don't have a strong favorite between the two teams, and both teams' colors include red!), but I am not a huge fan of the red dye needed for almost all the recipes I've seen. Has anyone made a red velvet cake without the dye? If so, can you share your recipe? It will just be our family, so the recipe doesn't need to be fancy or even super dark red. Thanks in advance! |
Anonymous
| My grandma's recipe calls for 2 bottles of red and I just use 1 bottle of food color and one bottle of water. It still looks plenty red with half the dye. |
Anonymous
| The red food color is what makes it red velvet cake. Otherwise, it's just slightly chocolate cake. Which is fine, but is not "red." |
Anonymous
Anonymous
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I've seen some posts online about using beet juice as a replacement for red food dye but I've never tried it. I like this website for real food recipes and she has some desserts - https://www.100daysofrealfood.com/
But yeah you're not going to get an actual red cake without using red food dye. |
Anonymous
| I don't know of a specific recipe, but a friend of mine made one involving beet juice. It looked beautiful and vibrant. |
Anonymous
| Beet juice |
Anonymous
| We’ve had them with beet juice because one kid had a dairy allergy and the other had an egg and wheat allergy. The company that made the allergen-free baked goods also did not use artificial colors. They were very red. |
Anonymous
| The Smitten Kitchen cookbook has a red velvet cake recipe made with red wine. She has a "red wine chocolate cake" recipe on the website, which may be the same recipe but I have not compared. I have made the cookbook recipe and it was delicious -- not as bright red as a traditional red velvet cake, though. |
Anonymous
| I make red velvet pancakes using beet powder that I keep to put into my smoothies. |