YUMMY CUPCAKE

Red velvet cake is wrapped up in urban legend and embedded in Southern tradition. How to Make Red Velvet Cake will teach you to make this delicious, blood red dessert.

If you’ve seen the movie Steel Magnolias, you’ve seen a red velvet cake. Remember the armadillo groom’s cake with the blood red interior? However, red velvet cake’s history reaches farther back than 1989. An urban legend claims that the cake was first concocted by a chef at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York. Supposedly, a woman who wrote to the chef requesting the recipe received an unexpected bill charging her $100 for the formula.1 Irate, she paid the bill and then began passing out copies of the recipe to everyone she met. Whatever the true origins of the red velvet cake, it certainly makes an interesting and delicious dessert. Serve it up to your friends and embellish the story as you will.

If you have a macabre sense of humor, feel free to shape your cake into animal form. On the other hand, you could also shape a cake into the form of a heart and serve it to your sweetie on Valentine’s Day. Once you’ve thoroughly enjoyed red velvet cake, check out some of Mahalo’s other dessert recipes, such as those for chocolate mousse, banana pudding and pumpkin pie.