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Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Red Velvet

For a recent birthday (not mine) Felix demanded that we make a red cake, so I trotted out my recipe file (mostly neglected) and found an old photocopy of a Red Velvet Cake recipe. We shopped. I stayed up late making an enormous mess with red food coloring and ignoring all the best advice about making even tidy layers for layer cake and in the morning a fresh enormous mess was made in frosting creation.

Red Velvet cake doesn't taste like much, does it? It doesn't really taste like vanilla cake or chocolate or even cocoa. And this was one of those super authentic recipes with buttermilk and a final hit of baking soda mixed with cider vinegar that is supposed to make some kind of alchemic magic in the oven.

But it really didn't taste much. Even the Felix only wanted to eat the (buttercream) frosting to the point where he began requesting "more white" and leaving the red on his plate. A discerning kid. So my question to you is this: is it me or is it the nature of this red beast?

No no there are no pictures. The mess was much too much.

posted by Elise at 1:35 PM

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2 Comments:

Laura Kramarsky said...

I've only had red velvet cake twice and neither time did it taste like anything at all. People said "oh, you like chocolate, you'll love this". I didn't.

7/24/2007 5:05 PM

Mandy said...

Red Velvet is not my favorite either (I swear I am sensitive to red food coloring). I feel that red velvet cake is somewhat of a Southern staple (ie Bleeding Armadillo Cake - Steel Magnolias). Being from the South - I've tasted several. The best kinds are with a cream chese frosting - as to how to make it, I have no idea - but search southern cookbooks, I feel like the secret is there.

8/11/2007 7:19 PM

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