Can anyone give me a recipe for PINK CAKE?

[BroccoliSpears]

Dd has requested pink cake for her birthday party on Saturday.

I could make any cake and ice it pink.

I could make a victoria sandwich and add pink colouring into the mix.

Thought I'd just see first if any mumsnetters had a better way of doing it.

??

Thank you!

I could decorate with strawberries.

Have realised I don't have a tin big enough so am going to have to make 2 cakes. One for candles / singing and a secret one so everyone gets a slice .

What is cake ettiquette? Does everyone get a slice at the party AND a piece in the party bag?

Eek.

I don't want to make a fatless sponge because it will have to be made the day before and they don't keep well at all. Also they're a bit hard if I remember rightly.

But I think a vic sponge with pink colouring wouldn't work.

I refuse to believe that I'm the first mum on here to be faced with a pink cake request. What did you dooooooo?

I am fairly sure, that when I was little, my mum made me a pink cake of the victoria sponge & pink food colouring variety. Why do you think it won't work?

add pink food colouring to the cake mix, or red even

it works fantastically!

I just wondered if it would turn a horrid colour - sponges are a bit orangey to start with.

during the early, somewhat experimental, days of using a magimix food processer I made a madeira cake and bunged some glace cherries in, blitzed it all for a bit too long - after it had been baked cake looked normal (brown) from the outside and pink on the inside - haven't tried it a second time...

Interesting mth. Might try that.

Paste colour.

Available in all good Sainsburys?

leave out the egg yolks from, the cake mix, and just use the whites instead, then it won't be orang/yellow and the red food colouring will make a more clean pink colour.

Don't try adding a pureed beetroot to the mix, believe me, it may be a lovely pink colour before cooking, but it just goes brown after it is cooked. It was a most disapointing culinery experiement!

Would something like this be okay?
Don't know what kind of pink you want....
There are loads of recipes on internet for red velvet cake. Its American, so your party people probably wouldn't have had it before- could be a bad thing, or a really cool thing!

pmsl at OMDB's 2nd post!

fairy cakes to eat during the party and a slice of the 'official' birthday cake in the party bag seems the norm round here....

I made a victoria sponge and added enormous amounts of pink food colouring, then iced it with jam, pink frosting and strawberries.

Result:
1 X spectacularly pink cake
1 X very pleased small girl

Thank you!

i nalso had a request for pink cake this year, i did a sponge and put a few drops of food colouring in the mix to make it pink.

she wanted choolate frosting so we ended up with pink and chocolate cake which she was extremely pleased about