Talk:Red velvet cake

message: This is an excellent article - is there any reason not to include a recipe, or at least a link to one?  We're disseminating all human knowledge - how to do things counts, right? -MBlume 21:20, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. The beginnings of this article were the top hit on my blog back in the day. Wikipedia discourages "how to's" such as recipes. WP:NOT contains the relevant guidelines and suggests posting instructional material to Wikibooks or Wikihow. --Dystopos 06:04, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not my most common thing to make, or I would post a recipe (over at Wikibooks, of course).  There still isn't a recipe over there, or else I'd suggest a link in this Wikipedia article to the Wikibooks recipe page.  Anyone willing to work on this? — ArkansasTraveler 15:39, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Recipe

message: I am eating a piece of it right now! —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.18.104.52 (talk) 22:05, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  yumyumyum 

message: I just looked this up because I was eating a piece (scrumptious), and I was almost (almost) turned off from finishing the slice by the photograph. It looks...well...sick—sepia-toned off angle blob on a green plate. Someone take a new, bright red picture quick.--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 23:45, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I was thinking the same thing!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.152.107.54 (talk) 17:35, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. --Dystopos (talk) 19:24, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks.  The new photo shows a cake very heavy on the red food colouring, but it's a clearer photograph.  --Skeezix1000 (talk) 19:33, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Picture

message: Red velvet cupcakes should be mentioned in this article. Badagnani (talk) 06:35, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Cupcake

message: As I was watching the Food Network "Food Detectives" on June 9, 2009, it was mentioned that female beetle carcasses, or carmine, or E120 dye, are a common source of "natural" red coloring used in most Red Velvet Cakes.  I was very surprised that this was never mentioned in this article as I found it fascinating and important.  He showed how thousands of female carcasses were ground up with mortar and pestle to extract a rich red color which will not deteriorate and is therefore widely used in the food industry, particularly for Red Velvet Cake.  Please insert this in the main body of the article.  69.110.150.182 (talk) 01:32, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Use of carmine in red food coloring

message: Comment moved from Talk:Red velvet cake/Comments Astronaut (talk) 03:03, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed.  Astronaut (talk) 03:03, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Desert! 

message: Was fairly widely publicised as a vegan version was used as Ellens (Ellen Degeneres') wedding cake . This link shows the chef discussing it : http://www.accesshollywood.com/video_525781
Perhaps worth mentioning after steel magnolias as being featured with a prominent celebrity couple is likely to add to popularity. Aliciaa1988 (talk) 01:13, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The New York Times article already linked mentions Jessica Simpson's wedding and were we to put in Ellen's cake, then I feel like we'd have to put in Jessica's as well, so I'd leave out.--Aichik (talk) 22:08, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ellen's wedding cake 

message: "All use Red Coloring"  I'm fairly certain that is wrong. 70.119.247.185 (talk) 00:18, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Red Coloring

message: "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."
Really?
"There’s also a scientific myth associated with Red Velvet Cake. It has sometimes been asserted that the cake’s red color comes from a chemical reaction between the baking soda and the chocolate in the recipe. This is the result of a simple misunderstanding of the chemistry involved. While cocoa powder contains anthocyanins (red vegetable pigments) they are only red in the presence of acids –they turn blue-green in the presence of bases. When cocoa is mixed with the baking soda, a base, the combination should turn the cake an unappetizing brownish-gray. It doesn’t, of course, because the anthocyanins are present in very small quantities, and any color shift is masked by the more prominent brown of the chocolate."http://leitesculinaria.com/10565/writings-origins-of-red-velvet-cake.html
Having made this cake, I will tell you the above correct.
Starlilyth (talk) 04:45, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Science? 

message: Could we take this out? I've saw the movie when it came out in theaters, and I've enjoyed more than my share of red velvet cupcakes in the last 10 years. Neither ever connected in my mind... Steel Magnolias did not do for red velvet cake as E.T. did for Reese's Pieces, sorry.--Aichik (talk) 22:29, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Steel Magnolias mention 

message: The lead suggests, "a true red velvet cake contains cocoa as only one of the ingredients"... as opposed to... cakes where cocoa is the only ingredient? The phrase should probably be changed to something that makes sense.--Jeffro77 (talk) 10:31, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Betty Crocker is given as the source for that. "She" says: "One of the most rampant rumors is that Red Velvet cake is full of chocolate. The truth is that chocolate—in the form of cocoa—is just one ingredient." I'd be surprised to find any reader familiar with making cakes who thought otherwise. Feel free to reword the article. Jonathunder (talk) 10:52, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: The 'source' you reference (not really much more than an ad) is clearly not written in a style suitable for an encyclopedia. It seems to imply that there are unstated 'other' ingredients' that give red velvet cakes their flavour, though there could be some other intended meaning. In any case, it's terrible, terrible wording. If there is some other ingredient or process that is supposed to give these cakes a 'unique' flavour, someone should update the article accordingly.--Jeffro77 (talk) 00:58, 20 May 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree it's not a great source. If you think it's best to just remove the phrase, go ahead. Jonathunder (talk) 02:38, 20 May 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Already done.--Jeffro77 (talk) 02:44, 20 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Warning: may contain cocoa 

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