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By: Beet Red Velvet Cupcakes | Kate O. Lynch | Recipe

Beet Red Velvet Cupcakes | Kate O. Lynch | Recipe — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:01:06 +0000

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By: Miriam

Miriam — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 11:44:55 +0000

Red velvet cake is a stunner here in home, but I always have the cocoa and the food colour seperated. Cocoa up, food colour down?p. Any help as to what am doing wrong?

By: Daks

Daks — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 19:49:07 +0000

Hi Jaime,
Glad to have stumbled across your site. I am a “hobby” baker and got an order to make a red velvet cake for this weekend. I usually never use box cake mixes, but since I wasn’t ready to physically dump that much of red food coloring into the batter, I went and bought a box mix (gasp!). It is sitting in my pantry now and staring at me! I could not make peace with myself so I googled and found your site! Read your recipe for the cake as well as the cupcakes, and my question is whether you think I can use the CC recipe to make a cake instead. The reason is that you have tried to make the cake a little “less” dense/lighter here than in your cake recipe, and I would like to have a lighter cake if possible.

By: Jaime {sophistimom}

Jaime {sophistimom} — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 00:04:26 +0000

Thank you so much, Lera, and thanks for letting us know that boiling the beets is a good option. That’s a mystery why it turned out oily. When I made mine, I froze the layers before I frosted them, so I wonder if that’s why mine never seemed oily. That’s something I’ll have to look out for next time I make this cake.

By: Lera

Lera — Fri, 31 May 2013 08:29:43 +0000

sorry, I had a typo. I meant that it was a bit oily even though I used butter instead of oil. By the way, I boiled the beets.
And it worked out just fine.

By: Lera

Lera — Fri, 31 May 2013 08:11:50 +0000

I tried them this evening. The color was red just like your picture. However, my mom said that it tastes a little bit like corn. I didn’t tell her that there’s beets in there. I wonder if I could bring down the beets to 1/2 cup instead of 3/4 cup. Also, it was a bit oily even though I used oil. Maybe I could bring it down to 3/4 stick of butter instead of 1 stick. But overall, it was delicious. Also, since I didn’t have the rice vinegar, I used red wine vinegar. In Bobby Flay’s red velvet recipe, he used red wine vinegar. Overall, it was still very good although it’s not the same as the regular red velvet. Thanks for sharing the recipe.