Did you know you can put beets in chocolate cake?

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Well beet juice anyway or beet puree. I was searching for my latest thing to do to help my brother and red velvet cake came up. People were trying to make it red without food coloring. Originally, there was a chemical reaction that made it red, but with the chocolate being processed with alkali, it doesn't matter if you use vinegar, butter milk, or sour cream, it doesn't seem to turn red unless you use food coloring or something else. So I used beet juice instead of water and sour cream instead of oil. It didn't make it red. But it was a diabetic cake mix. So at least it made it not so excessively sweet. Ever notice how some of that fake sugar stuff is sweeter than the real sugar stuffand it makes it, like they say on the "Chopped" cooking show, "cloyingly sweet." But it didn't take away the yucky after taste. But anyway, it was a successful sneak. Both of my brothers never knew the difference. I'll have to try a beet velvet cake from scratch one of these times. So have you ever made red velvet cake? Did you use red food coloring? Beets? Find an original recipe and original ingredients? I still like my Mother's Mayonnaise chocolate cake the best. I was hoping it would be like that. Is it? I've never really had the real red velvet cake.