Help With Red Velvet Cake - For Wedding!

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MissRobin Posted 1 Oct 2007 , 8:45pm
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I am doing a wedding cake this weekend and the bride wants the 16" square bottom tier to be red velvet, any idea how to quad druple my recipe, I am just not sure about amount of ingredients. Trying to save time and not have to make several batches. Hope this makes sense!

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cakebaker1957 Posted 1 Oct 2007 , 8:50pm
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I am doing a wedding cake this weekend and the bride wants the 16" square bottom tier to be red velvet, any idea how to quad druple my recipe, I am just not sure about amount of ingredients. Trying to save time and not have to make several batches. Hope this makes sense!




Are you doing this from box or scratch if scratch i would consider a box mix Only info i can give you at this time

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beccakelly Posted 1 Oct 2007 , 8:51pm
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first off, are you doing this at home? i don't think a quadruple batch will fit in a home mixer. my 6 qrt KA pro 600 is only big enough for a triple batch of a standard 8 cup recipe.

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beccakelly Posted 1 Oct 2007 , 8:53pm
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I am doing a wedding cake this weekend and the bride wants the 16" square bottom tier to be red velvet, any idea how to quad druple my recipe, I am just not sure about amount of ingredients. Trying to save time and not have to make several batches. Hope this makes sense!



Are you doing this from box or scratch if scratch i would consider a box mix Only info i can give you at this time




i wouldn't do a box of red velvet. my experience with boxed red velvet is that it doesn't even compare with a well made scratch red velvet. its the only flavor of boxed cake mix i really honestly don't like.

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cakebaker1957 Posted 2 Oct 2007 , 12:56pm
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I am doing a wedding cake this weekend and the bride wants the 16" square bottom tier to be red velvet, any idea how to quad druple my recipe, I am just not sure about amount of ingredients. Trying to save time and not have to make several batches. Hope this makes sense!



Are you doing this from box or scratch if scratch i would consider a box mix Only info i can give you at this time



i wouldn't do a box of red velvet. my experience with boxed red velvet is that it doesn't even compare with a well made scratch red velvet. its the only flavor of boxed cake mix i really honestly don't like.




Sorry, i dont eat them very often, to me there just a chocolate cake with red icing

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beccakelly Posted 2 Oct 2007 , 2:32pm
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ya, red velvet is just chocolate cake to a lot of people. but its completely its own thing! it has a tangy flavor with just a hint of choc to it. its hard to describe, but its def not a choc cake.

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