Tuesday, January 22, 2013

A traditional cake for the San Francisco 49ers Niners!

This is a collection of notes for an experimental recipe to bake a natural-dyed red velvet cake with a golden cream cheese frosting:

On how to get a redder cake using a modified version with fresh beets puree & raspberry juice – without added water:


Original red velvet recipe:

Basic cream cheese frosting:



For the golden color in buttercream frosting – add dark chocolate. Need to experiment this with cream cheese for a similar antique gold color
http://www.justapinch.com/recipes/dessert/cake/swiss-meringue-chocolate-buttercream-frosting.html


Final product using Swiss chocolate buttercream and traditional cream cheese frostings;