10/31/2018
🛑 NEW FLAVOR ALERT 🛑 Red Velvet Cake 🍦🍰♥️
Since many people are unfamiliar with red velvet cake and assume it is strawberry or cherry .. read on for a brief history of this decadent flavor 👇🏼👇🏼
Velvet cakes have been made since the 1800s. Recipes called for the use of cocoa to soften flour and make finer texture cakes. This smoother texture gave these cakes the name Velvet cakes. A Mahogany cake also was popular which incorporate cocoa and coffee (its cousin being Devil’s Food Cake). By the early 1900s recipes surfaced for cocoa velvet cakes, red cocoa cakes, and other variations. Present day Red Velvet Cake relies more on red food coloring than it does on beets. Another reason why food coloring is used to give the cake its signature color is because of the way cocoa is now processed in the United States. Most cocoa available in the groceries stores is known as Dutch process cocoa. The thing is natural coca is fairly acidic. When it is processed, the acid is reduced while creating a rich brown color. It is the acid in the natural cocoa that reacts to the buttermilk creating a reddish hue. Because natural cocoa isn’t as widely available, bakers opt instead to use Dutch process cocoa and add food coloring to give the cakes their color. 💋
