Red Velvet Cake

[tmorro never knows]

Anybody know about this cake?  Never heard it out here in California.  But a guy from Georgia I met tonight says his Grandma and Ma would go in the kitchen and come out later with this red velvet cake.  Said his own Ma wouldn't give him the recipe....

Is it just like a regular cake only red dye?

[will syrup]

pound cake with food coloring, stick with the peanut butter pie and banana pudding:-)

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 2:06 PM, tmorro never knows <tmorro_ne...@yahoo.com> wrote:

Anybody know about this cake?  Never heard it out here in California.  But a guy from Georgia I met tonight says his Grandma and Ma would go in the kitchen and come out later with this red velvet cake.  Said his own Ma wouldn't give him the recipe....

Is it just like a regular cake only red dye?

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I believe the ed velvet is more than just coloring.

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[Big Jim]

  We used to eat them all the time in these parts, BUTT most of the lady's that made them is gone.

BUTT, check this out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_velvet_cake

GOOGLE is your friend, GOOGLE Red Velvet cake.

BeeJay

[Buzz Dean]

more like a devlis food cake with a jar of red food coloring

[Robert King]

Yes almost. More of a cocoa flavoring with a fluffy/light cream frosting.

Can't believe you haven't seen it around. It seems to be the latest yuppie trend. Ice cream, cupcakes, cookies etc. I'm almost tired of seeing it now. Used to be my favorite but almost overdone now IMO .

Out this morning smoking smoking some salmon here in WA on vacation.

Robert King

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[Buzz Dean]

its red velvet everything on dessert menus it seems--the tasting of a good red velvet cupcake should be a prerequisite to baking them for sale!!

[tmorro never knows]

Really?  I do eat out a lot, well, Mondays anyway.  Never seen it.  Eh well, this guy from GA was talking about it.  I did google it but wanted to get the story on it from first hand, which this group is goodat.  Thanks for filling me in. Anyway,, it's time for me to bring out my pecan pie, which i'm going to do in little 4" shells.  I been waiting this long cuz of the crust, not easy to do in production so it scared me.  I'm going to cave in and buy the crusts, I guess.  Makes me uncomfortable.  Anyway, we'll try it out and see.

Thanks

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From: Buzz Dean <2fa...@gmail.com>
To: smoker...@googlegroups.com
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 9:17 AM

Subject: Re: [BBQ] Red Velvet Cake

[Buzz Dean]

are there still Bumbleberry Pie shops in the San Jose area--they had great pie crusts---40yrs ago anyways<lol>

[tmorro never knows]

Not a one, far as I know...

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Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 11:30 AM

[Lucy Baker]

Small red velvet cupcakes might be a fun idea.  I'm sure there is a cup cake store in San Jose.  We have 2 or 3 in Long Beach that are outstanding.  I don't "bake" per se, so I'm not into pie crusts, cakes, blah blah, but the cupcakes these stores have are amazing and they have mini ones.  Just a couple of bites to get a sweet treat after dinner.

Lucy

[Kevin Cleek]

Nowadays, Red Velvet Cake is a chocolate cake with a few drops of red food coloring to give it an unusual color, with a cream cheese frosting. 

The red velvet cake was very popular during the 1920s.   My old cookbook recipes used cocoa powder for flavor the cake and beet juice to give the cake a red devil color, and it was coated with a white buttercream frosting.  During the Depression and WWII, when cocoa and sugar were harder to get, a few drops of beet juice were still did the trick for color and Crisco-type shortening  (less/no butter) and sugar were used in the frosting.

Kevin's wife.

[Frank Boyer]

That chain went bankrupt 30 years ago.

Frank

[James Stewart]

I guess I miss the excitement of the cupcake stores. We recently went intop one in downtown Chattanooga(no different than any we have here in S. Florida) but the real pleasure of eating the flavored cake is overwhelmed by this mountain of icing.They may have the best icing and the best flavor of icing, but the name should be the icing store with a cupcake to put it on!    Pigman!

[Kurt Lucas]

Thanks for the info. Sounds like modern technology took a perfectly good all natural cake, and turned it into something much less desirable, at a higher price.  :)

 

Kurt

 

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Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 2:08 PM
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Subject: Re: [BBQ] Red Velvet Cake

 

Nowadays, Red Velvet Cake is a chocolate cake with a few drops of red food coloring to give it an unusual color, with a cream cheese frosting. 

[Sherman Watkins]

One of the reasons I prefer pound cake ( besides all the butter and sugar in the recipe) is that it is generally served without icing.

Sherm
Smoking in Montana's Banana Belt

[Buzz Dean]

we share cupcakes--cut them in half and spread a bunch of the frosting on the bottom half---even with my big mouth cant take a bite out of those big cupcakes!!
Bought a 4 pqck of muffins at store the other day--blueberry iirc--opened up the container and saw that they were like cut in half----and the price went up

[James Stewart]

I think we spent about $12 for the 4 cupcakes we bought in Chattanooga. But that is similar in price to cupcakes you get locally. I tossed most of the icing from the cupcake that I got.  Pigman

[tmorro never knows]

$3 for a cupcake.  Sounds lucrative to say the least.

Paul

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Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 12:34 PM

[Buzz Dean]

if they are good that is an ok price---plus having just one is better for me-----and when I make them at home there is at least a 1/2doz to eat b4 they get old

[Kevin Cleek]

Twelve bucks for four cupcakes?  Are you insane?

Kevin

[James Stewart]

Probably is when they are selling, but as with any niche market they must have buyers.  There are several cupcake stores here in S. Fl and their prices are in the same range as the ones I got in Tenn.  IF I get any here we get the mini's and we'll get a doz mized then we can get a decent sampling, think the doz mini's bout $10.  Our trips into cupcake world are maybe once a year.  Pigman

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[James Stewart]

No one ever doubted the insane part, but when yer playin tourist, and yer wife and the other female say let's get cupcakes, what'll it be cupcakes or a head lump???    Pigman

[Kurt Lucas]

Here’s the cupcake I usually eat two or three times a week.

http://vegas.eater.com/archives/2012/07/17/the-decadence-dor-cupcake-at-sweet-surrender.php

 

Kurt

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From: Kurt Lucas

Subject: RE: [BBQ] Red Velvet Cake

Here’s the cupcake I usually eat two or three times a week.

http://vegas.eater.com/archives/2012/07/17/the-decadence-dor-cupcake-at-sweet-surrender.php

 

Kurt

 

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[Bryan Foltz]

Pigman, I just got back from a trip to Chattanooga. We spent a week with some old friends from NC--had a lot of fun visiting. Were you there for fun or what?

-bf

[James Stewart]

Two nights with friends that used to live in Florida.  They just moved there in the past 5 months, and really wanted us to stop in since we would be that close. Great visit, great friends.  Pigman!

[Bryan Foltz]

Glad you had fun. We were visiting some friends from out time in nc...spent a week with them. Good times!

-bf