Natural Food Color

[Lindacakes]

Can anyone recommend a natural food color?  I want to do a red velvet cake for Valentine's Day and I would like to use natural coloring.  I want a good, strong red.

[ChocoMom]

I wonder if this might work... http://www.amazon.com/Beet-Root-Powder-8oz-Natural-Food-Coloring/dp/B009XAABZM

 

I've never used it in a red velvet cake before, but I've used beet powder past for coloring frosting, and seems to be a little more on the magenta side, rather than screaming RED.  But, it is natural.

 

Hope that helps!

Andrea

[CatPoet]

There was some one who used  Indian tree food colours with good results on another food board I was on.   You will never get a bright red as synthetics with  naturals.   The  red food colouring I can buy in bog standard stores in Sweden is beetroot red and it makes things more pink then red.

[JoNorvelleWalker]

Can anyone recommend a natural food color?  I want to do a red velvet cake for Valentine's Day and I would like to use natural coloring.  I want a good, strong red.

 

Cochineal -- Natural Red 4.

[MelissaH]

A friend makes a red velvet cake with beet puree for the coloring. It looked very red.