How do you make a pink cake (maybe even a rainbow cake)

BaileyB

Hi,

I would like to make a pink cake, so thinking about it adding red colouring to the batter would make sense.

But as the batter is a yellow/white would this effect it at all?

Any help would be great.

I would like the colours neon so bright as possible.

mumlady1

Hi BaileyB, check pinterest.com There are loads of ideas for this type of thing. Once you register, scroll through the home page, if nothing pops out at you just type 'rainbow cakes' in the search box.

Callie22

Buy some paste food colouring.This is much, much more concentrated than the liquid stuff so you can get really deep colours without having so add so much liquid that it will affect the texture of your cake. It's also worth bearing in mind that colours do tend to go darker once they're baked.

VintageBelle

Callie22 wrote: »

Buy some paste food colouring.This is much, much more concentrated than the liquid stuff so you can get really deep colours without having so add so much liquid that it will affect the texture of your cake. It's also worth bearing in mind that colours do tend to go darker once they're baked.

That's what I was going to suggest too, the liquid ones are ok but don't have much colour depth and you require much more

To make a rainbow cake, just make lots of different cakes each with a different colour in the batter. If you want the lazy option buy ready made cake mix as these make enough per packet for a layer, so one packet per colour.

CupOfChai

Agreed with using paste/gel colour, as it won't affect the texture of your cake mix as much. Check the food colouring is ok to heat, with some of them the colour will change if you use them for anything you put in the oven. And as you want a very bright colour I'd use an artificial colouring rather than a natural colouring, because the natural ones often aren't as vibrant or concentrated as the artificial ones and you need to use more.

Pinzy

It would be worth investing in a pink paste (Hobbycraft or Lakeland keep stocks), rather than using a red one, else as you've said, it may look more orange. Yep, another vote for the pastes! They give so much vibrant colour for such a small amount!

Edit - added to show colours from paste colourings in my attempt at um, unicorn poop cookies.

Floss

Have a look at this: http://uktv.co.uk/food/recipe/aid/654954/ Its the recipe I followed for the cake in my avatar.

paddyrg

Grate a beetroot ;-)