Red Velvet
28 February 2015 in Delicious!Being a fan of Red Velvet cake, I was happy to find out about Oreos Red Velvet cookie.
The filing is a wonderful cream cheese icing flavor. As I write this I realize that the icing may be what I enjoy more than the cake. However, there is something attractive with the red. Perhaps it’s because it is not the standard yellow or chocolate cake.
History.
Red velvet cake also known as the $100 dollar cake, $200 dollar cake, or Waldorph Astoria Cake is only a legend as is the Nieman Marcus cookies and all are examples of a legend that pits institutions against a consumer who feels he/she has been unfairly charged.The recipe is a grass roots recipe not an institutional one.
James Beard outlines in his American Cookery that there is really 3 varieties of red velvet cake, recipes being different in the use of butter, shortening|vegetable shortening ( crisco ) and oil. Most all call for cake flour and buttermilk, baking soda and vinegar for the leaving process. The redness of the cake comes from red food color despite the chemical reaction of baking soda, vinegar , buttermilk and cocoa which cause a reddish brown color, not red in the cake.
