Hey Guys its TGIF today. everyone needs to reward themselves with a mouthwatering Dessert and make your day sweeter than ever.. My Red velvet cupcake with cream cheese frosting and Milk chocolate crunch Rose on top. Did you Know? 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. The reddish color is often enhanced by adding beetroot or red food coloring. Common ingredients include buttermilk, butter, cocoa, and flour for the cake, beetroot or red food coloring for the color. History: James Beards 1972 reference, American Cookery, describes three red velvet cakes varying in the amounts of shortening and butter, also vegetable oil. All used red food coloring, but the reaction of acidic vinegar and buttermilk tends to better reveal the red anthocyanin in cocoa and keeps the cake moist, light and fluffy. This natural tinting may have been the source for the name red velvet as well as Devils food and similar names for chocolate cakes. When foods were rationed during World War II, bakers used boiled beet juices to enhance the color of their cakes. Beets are found in some red velvet cake recipes, where they also serve to retain moisture. Adams Extract, a Texas company, is credited for bringing the red velvet cake to kitchens across America during the time of the Great Depression by being one of the first to sell red food coloring and other flavor extracts with the use of point-of-sale posters and tear-off recipe cards.The cake and its original recipe are well known in the United States from New York Citys famous Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. However, it is widely considered a Southern recipe. Traditionally, the 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. In Canada, the cake was a well-known dessert in the restaurants and bakeries of the Eatons department store chain in the 1940s and 1950s. Promoted as an exclusive Eatons recipe, with employees who knew the recipe sworn to silence, many mistakenly believed the cake to be the invention of the department store matriarch, Lady Eaton. In recent years, red velvet cake and red velvet cupcakes have become increasingly popular in the US and many European countries. A resurgence in the popularity of this cake is attributed by some to the 1989 film Steel Magnolias which included a red velvet grooms cake made in the shape of an armadillo. Magnolia Bakery in Manhattan, having served it since its opening in 1996, certainly helped to popularize it, as did restaurants known for their Southern cooking like Amy Ruths in Harlem,which opened in 1998.Cake Man Raven opened one of the first bakeries devoted to the cake, in Brooklyn, in 2000. Made and Baked by : Pastry Chef Nathaniel Del Prado Donato ^_^ Have A Creamy and Cheesy Velvet Day
Posted on: Fri, 22 Aug 2014 12:24:05 +0000
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