A friend of mine has asked me to make an armadillo cake for her son's rehersal dinner this Friday. She has specifically asked for boxed cake so my question is if I use Americolor coloring will it turn the yellow cake mix red or is it better to use the white cake mix? I am thinking that the yellow mix would taste better than the white but don't know for sure. Please help.
Thanks
You could do a red velvet cake mix. It's already red, then you wouldn't have to color it.
If red velvet cake works with the whole bottle of red.........( I mean they're turning choc. cake to red right??) then I don't see why it wouldn't work with yellow......but you're going to have to add a ton.........You might be better off going with the white cake......you'll get a more true red out of it!!! The yellow will be orange for a while before you get it red.
If it were me, I think that I would use a white cake mix and I would save my Americolors and go buy a bottle of McCormick's red food coloring. It comes in 1oz bottles and you may need most of the bottle to achieve the true red that you are wanting.
They sell it with all the spices at the grocery store.
I made a superman cake a few days ago, with red and blue marble. I used a duncan hines yellow cake and colored it with wilton no taste red and it came out beautifully.
WOO HOO!! Glad it worked, and sorry I wasn't much help!!
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