Naturally Colored Hidden Heart Cake

Naturally Colored Hidden Heart Cake

Bake a romantic hidden heart cake without artificial food coloring for Valentine’s Day! The pink heart is naturally colored with raspberries and beetroot.

cake recipe with natural food coloring raspberry beetroot

Ingredients:
White Cake Layer
  • 150g flour
  • 100g starch
  • 125g sugar
  • 125g butter
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/2 packet baking powder
  • 30ml water
  • 1 tbsp homemade vanilla sugar
  • pinch salt
Pink Cake Layer
Natural Pink Icing

 

natural food coloring raspberry heart cake

Preheat oven to 150°C/ 302°F (circulating air). Butter a pan. Strain raspberries through a sieve. Combine all ingredients for the pink cake layer.

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Use just raspberry puree for pale pink hearts or add raw beetroot puree for dark pink hearts.

Bake for about 40 minutes. When cool, cut off the browned crust.

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Cut out hearts with a heart-shaped cookie cutter.

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Beetroot & raspberry hearts

naturally colored hidden heart cake

Fill half of the white cake into a buttered baking pan, add the hearts …

naturally colored hidden heart cake recipe raspberry beetroot

… and cover them with the remaining cake batter. Bake for about 1 h.

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