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Shutterstock By DB KellyUpdated: Oct. 11, 2023 3:00 pm EST Red velvet is everywhere, from cookies to candles. But it was cake that started it all, and seeing it on a dessert menu is still exciting...
Shutterstock sToday, we think of "red velvet" as just being the name of that one famous cake, but there's a little more to it than that. In the Victorian era, velvet cakes were an actual thing. They came about, says The New York Times, when bakers...
Shutterstock When you look at red velvet cake today, the color is unmistakable. It wasn't always so bright and so, well, red, and that's because the original color came not from food dyes but from a chemical reaction. According to Bobbie Lloyd, C...
Shutterstock So, if olde timey velvet cakes were a little more natural-looking, why on earth do we have these super-bright red cakes today? The history of exactly how the red velvet cake came about is debated, but according to The New York Times, we...
Timothy A. Clary/Getty Images Here's where things get a little weird. It's hotly debated just who should get credit for inventing the red velvet cake, and part of the credit is claimed by the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel...
Shutterstock Sure, a rose by any other name would probably smell just as sweet, but names are important. You know it as a red velvet cake, but over the course of the decades it's been popular, it's been called some pretty funky things. Next time ...
Shutterstock Velvet cakes may have been the stuff of fancy parties during the Victorian era, but part of red velvet's enduring popularity has come because of difficult times. According to Stella Parks, author of BraveTart: Iconic American Desserts...
Shutterstock There's a rumor going around that red velvet cake is simply chocolate cake with some extra color added, but that's not true at all. So, what is the difference. ...
Shutterstock When you think of some of the classic cakes popular across the southern section of the U. S. , you probably add red velvet to the list...
Shutterstock There aren't not too many foods that come with their own urban legend, but red velvet is one of them. It shares the story with fudge cake and Neiman Marcus, but the tale is basically the same. It involves a woman who goes out to eat,...
Shutterstock Red velvet is a strange sort of thing. It spread from the U. S...
Chris Jackson/Getty Images Getting that deep red color in your homemade red velvet cakes can be difficult, and while there are a lot of cake fails out there, cutting into a less-than-red red velvet cake is definitely up there. Fortunately, The Humm...
Shutterstock Here's some good news: cake doesn't have to be terrible for you. And that comes from nutritionist and dietician Maggie Michalczyk, RDN. She suggests using something completely different to get the distinctive red color of red velvet,...
Shutterstock Everyone knows it's cream cheese frosting with red velvet cake, right? Today, sure, but it wasn't always like that. If you want to make a real, authentic red velvet cake of the original kind, you'll need to skip the cream cheese and re...