Hello Everyone!

I am looking for recipes to make a red velvet cake, I tried one already but it tastes bitter b/c of the red coloring. Is there a better brand that other for the color? I wanted to try using beets, following the recipe from Rose's Heavenly cakes, Has anyone tried it before? Can anyone share a good recipe from scratch ?

Thanks for any input on this subject!

Anna

I don't like my red velvet to be bright red, so I just add less color and use a gel color instead of liquid coloring.

I use McCormick food color. Never noticed a bitterness, but I'm not particularly sensitive to such things, either.

I make this recipe and this recipe ONLY! It is the only scratch cake recipe of any kind that has ever turned out for me, too. It uses beets and dutch process cocoa. I usually end up using reg cocoa, and add 1/8c less than is called for. It isnt really red-red so much with regular cocoa, but still delish! I also use buttermilk in place of the regular milk, and that started as a mistake...I misread the ingredients when I first made it. It's soooooo good. No beet flavor at all, and the most moist cake ever. Huge hit with anyone who has tasted it! HTH.

http://coconutlime.blogspot.com/2009/05/cant-beet-red-velvet-cupcakes.html

I made mine from Hershey's chocolate cake recipe (from the recipe on the cocoa box) and added the no-taste red color from Wilton until it was a dark scarlet color. I followed the regular baking instructions and it came out delish

Thanks everyone for sharing !! an to Erin for the link, I have to make it this weekend... I'll let you all know how it came out !

Thanks

I use the red from GFS, and it is redder so I can use less, but it also does not have the bitter flavor that regular food color has, it is also cheaper.

Here is a link to a company that uses only natural ingredients, you may want to give it a shot...

http://www.escofoods.com/redcolor.html

Thanks for the link !!! Can you use it to color fondant and icing too ?

Thanks

What is GFS?

Gordon Food Service.

Works in icing, I don't use fondant.