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Natural Food Color

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Lindacakes

Lindacakes

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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.

I like to bake nice things. And then I eat them. Then I can bake some more.

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ChocoMom

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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

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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.

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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.

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