Superstitions and Urban Legends
Red Velvet Cake
My chose is Red Velvet Cake. Is a popular cake with a dark red, bright red or red-brown color? It is traditionally prepared as a layer cake topped with cream cheese icing, and sometimes cookie dough filling. To describes a red velvet cakes varying in the amounts of shortening and butter. All use red food coloring, but the reaction of acidic vinegar and buttermilk tends to better reveal the red anthocyanin in the cocoa. Before more alkaline "Dutch Processed" cocoa was widely available, the red color would have been more pronounced. This natural tinting may have been the source for the name "red velvet" as well as "Devil's Food" and similar names for chocolate cakes. Red velvet cake frosting is typically a white, creamy color, which serves as a dramatic contrast to the color of the actual cake. Although the types can vary, many stick with a traditional cream cheese frosting. Others might opt for a buttercream frosting which will also do the trick.
To discuss how many different variants exist and explore the class literature for this information, as well as other: As it turns out, the first recipe for the iconic dessert referring to it as "Red Velvet Cake" was published in 1962, the cake had existed before that, it's true, its red color a reaction of its ingredients, but this recipe calls for red food coloring, which up the color and has become a signature of the cake. So while the cake had existed, this was the year that it began its ascent into legendary territory. Humble beginnings and a swanlike transformation; both Red Velvet Cake and Marilyn Monroe began their lives in much simpler, humbler ways than the icons that we now call to mind when thinking about party, pastry or person. In the case of Red velvet cake, it began as the slightly ruddy-hued outcome of buttermilk and vinegar reacting while baking; it wasn't until