• Flying Squid
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    31 day ago

    Red velvet cake is essentially chocolate cake dyed red.

    • Tiefling IRL
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      1 day ago

      Real red velvet doesn’t use food dye. It’s just cheaper to make imitation red velvet

      • Flying Squid
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        -21 day ago

        Still basically chocolate cake though.

        • @OneOrTheOtherDontAskMe
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          524 hours ago

          Yeah I’m with the other guys, having made both versions, these are not the same cake. It’s a pretty common myth though, like, frighteningly common. Did someone tell you growing up that they were the same? My mother did, but my mother was a bad cook

        • @cowfodder
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          91 day ago

          Tell me you’ve never had an old fashioned red velvet cake without saying that you’ve never had an old fashioned red velvet cake. The original recipes have very little cocoa powder in them, and taste mostly of vanilla and buttermilk, with a slight chocolate undertone.