Red Velvet Cake
United States
About Red Velvet Cake
A soft red cocoa layer cake with cream cheese frosting.
Popular in the American South since the early 1900s, and New York's Waldorf-Astoria hotel claims to have created it. Its reddish tint first came from cocoa reacting with buttermilk, while modern versions use red food coloring.
Ingredients
- flour
- cocoa
- buttermilk
- red food coloring
- cream cheese
- butter
- sugar