[Sca-cooks] OT/OOP: Wazzup with "Red Velvet Cake"

[kingstaste at mindspring.com]

It was my late husband's favorite, he always requested it for his birthday.
Complete with cream cheese icing.  Most memorable Red Velvet Cake in
Cinema - The Armadillo Groom's Cake in Steel Magnolias.  When she cuts the
a** end off of the Armadillo, a comment is made about it looking like it is
bleeding out of the back end...
The cake comes out a rich dark blood red, but the cocoa has more to do with
the depth of color than the red food coloring does, in my opinion.  I had
never heard of it before moving to the south (and my late hubby was from
Palatka, Florida), so maybe it is a Southern Thang?
Christianna

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[mailto:sca-cooks-bounces at ansteorra.org]On Behalf Of Phil Troy / G.
Tacitus Adamantius
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 12:09 PM
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Subject: [Sca-cooks] OT/OOP: Wazzup with "Red Velvet Cake"


Hullo, the list!

I just heard my first mention of Red Velvet Cake on the radio five
minutes ago, and I went looking for a recipe, only to find it just a
little frightening.

It appears to be a more-or-less innocuous, lightly-cocoa-flavored
cream cake (in the sense that you cream together the fat and sugar to
a very light, foamy consistency before adding the other ingredients,
which seem to be fairly common, except perhaps for a dash of vinegar,
often seen in Southern pie crust recipes). So far, so good.

That is, until you get to the _TWO_OUNCES_ of red food coloring added
to the batter. That's 1/4 cup.

It seems that there are heretical recipes that call for a mere one
ounce, but those are inferior because the crumb of the cake is a deep
pink, and not, strictly speaking, red. It is rumored that you get
points taken off if the powdered micro-grains of cocoa are visible in
your finished cake.

Is anyone else reminded of the Red Raspberry Zinger cereal-ad debacle
in Stephen King's novel "Cujo"?

Okay, guys, let's hear the pitch. Is this really something people eat?

Adamantius


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