what is red velvet cake
Red velvet cake is a cake with either a dark red, bright red or red-brown color.It is traditionally prepared as a layer cake topped with cream cheese or cooked roux icing. Common ingredients include buttermilk, butter, cocoa, and flour for the cake, beetroot or red food coloring for the color.raditionally, red velvet cake is iced with a French-style butter roux icing (also called ermine icing), which is very light and fluffy, but time-consuming to prepare. Cream cheese frosting and buttercream frosting are variations which have increased in popularity.