what is the best make of food colouring for red velvet cakes?!

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I would be very interested in seeing your recipe to see if you have more cocoa in it than what is traditional.

I use 1 ounce of red food coloring (liquid) in my recipe and it always turns out perfectly red, but if you use more than 1 teaspoon of cocoa (or you use melted chocolate or another form) then you won't get that red color

Too, your vinegar/baking soda combination should be wholly accurate and your baking soda fresh.

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it's best to use a concentrated gel food coloring (such as Wilton) instead of a liquid food dye. liquid dyes are not concentrated and don't lend much color to the batter. the recipe I use makes 2 9" cakes (standard cake batter) and uses half a small tub of Wilton concentrated gel in RED or CHRISTMAS RED (one is brghter than the other, but both result in beautifully red cakes). it shouldn't matter how much cocoa is in your recipe, and traditional red velvet cake is a deep red, not reddish like another person said. use Wilton brand, it never fails.

experience

It's not the brand it's the recipe.

And a true red velvet recipe shouldn't be super red, but rather just have a reddish tint.

If you wnat a redder cake then add more red color. I would say as much as two-1 oz bottles.

Definitley Dr Oetker. But make sure you put plenty in or else they end up a pink colour, but when i made red velvet cakes, they came out a brilliant scarlet blood colour :)
Hope this helps x