Pink Sponge

[scattycat]

Hi all. I need to make a sponge cake for a child this weekend, and I would like to use pink sponge. How do I make ordinary sponge cake turn pink? I am going to try the blindingly obvious approach and simply use food colouring - will this work? Are there any alternatives?
Thanks!

[nickmo]

Red food colour diluted to the tone you want is the way. Use less to start with and increase to the colour you want - think 'battenburg pink', perhaps. Wash everything thrououghly once finished or you'll have some interesting meals later on....

You could scare people and make a chocolate and beetroot cake by the way - very old recipe (find one recipe at the National Trust website) - but though it has the beetroot in it, it won't be a red/pink colour - but tastes great!

[scattycat]

Hi,
Thanks for your help with this one - I'll definitely try to food colouring, then!
The other cake sounds good, too. Might give that a go!
Thanks again.

[nickmo]

Hi S - glad to help....

And if you like the choc and beetroot, there are other veg cakes to have a go at: choc and courgette; carrott and courgette; sweet potato cheesecake; spiced pumpkin cheesecake or how about sweet onion biscuits?

And with the pink sponge, just a suggestion to dress it up - add pink marshmallows, red sugar crystals, red spun sugar or even get creative with a bag of pink candy floss....?

Ta for now..

[BBWCHATT]

Scatty - not sure what shade of pink you are going for - but you might try maraschino cherry juice.

But as Nick says - food coloring is probably your best bet.

[scattycat]

Hi all,

Thanks again for all your help - much appreciated! The pink cake went down a storm (used the food colouring option in the end!).

Thanks everyone!