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Seriously? I asked FH if he was ok with just having a vanilla and chocolate cake and he looked at me for a few seconds and asked, "you mean with the red velvet, right?" I told him no and he seemed soooo confused! He then asked me what the point of having a wedding cake was if there wasn't red velvet. Umm...what? He then called his mom, put her on speaker phone and she basically said the same thing, "whats the point of having a cake if theres not red velvet!" I don't care either way but am I missing something? FH is a good ole Southern Boy and I've heard that its a "Southern thing" but some insight would be nice =)
My understanding is that it is a huge Southern thing, so that probably has a lot to do with it. From the one or two articles I've read on it (I'm a big fan of red velvet), it has it's origins in the South. Also, I think a lot of guys enjoy red velvet because it's not too chocolatey sweet.
Hmmm, Im not sure what the deal is, but I know its really really yummy lol
Red Velvet Cake is a more southern thing. But's it's delish becuase it has Cream Cheese frosting in addition to delicious red layers.
Haha, R did the same thing! My second cake trial was also his birthday cake and he goes, "you have to make it red velvet." I made it with a cream cheese filling, which was actually good!
I don't know about it being a tradition (never heard that myself) but I LOVE red velvet!!
Mmmm red velvet! Yes, it is most definitely a southern thing...and people are very passionate about it! For me, the most appealing feature is the cream cheese filling/frosting...you MUST have that with it! The cake itself is made with cocoa powder, but it isn't what you would consider a "chocolate" cake at all. The tangy flavor of the cream cheese filling is my favorite part. I love love love red velvet.
However, please please please please if you pick red velvet cake, DON'T put a filling other than cream cheese in it! We just went to a wedding where the bride and groom had red velvet cake that was filled with raspberry. It was...weird. And I totally missed the cream cheese flavor. Sad panda.
Red velvet is definitely a southern thing, but im a Cali girl and love it! Its usually made with cream cheese frosting and filling but a vanilla buttercream tastes delicious with it too. Its technically a chocolate cake made just a little different and with cocoa powder, and either made with red food coloring to give it the red color, or beets.
You could always do a grooms cake which is a southern thing as well and have it be red velvet.
@naangel55 - We actually decided to make the grooms cake, red velvet, its funny you should say that :) I've had it before and I liked it (but I like all cake) I just didn't understand the intensity of needing it! I am more curious about where the tradition came from and why the pressing need to have a red velvet cake at a wedding?
I've never heard anyone making a big deal about it but I am from the east coast. But why not have red velvet?? It is delicious!
It's DEFINITELY a Southern thing! We love our red velvet cake around here. MMMMM.
red velvet cake is only the BEST CAKE EVER> and yes im a southerner... its a chocolate cake really, but not....
its a must at weddings :)
I LOVE red velvet!!! And is one of the flavors in my cake!
I didn't know that it was a southern thing but my mom's family is from the south.
I was never a huge red velvet fan..but for our cake tasting we tried it...it had the cream cheese feeling in it..we were sold in a matter of 2 seconds..it was soo good!
I don't get it. It is like chocolate cake minus the flavor. I mean, if the point of it is a vessel for cream cheese frosting, then why not choose a different, flavorful cake and use cream cheese frosting (carrot, raspberry, lemon)?
I don't get it - everyone says they love it but they are mainly loving the cream cheese filling - which you can get at most italian bakeries!
We are having vanilla cake with cream cheese filling!?!?!?!
I am an east coast girl who also never understood the whole red velvet thing. I'd even eaten it and thought, meh. I think you can only truly understand red velvet if you make one yourself. Maybe it is just me, but I have a hard time enjoying food when I don't know what is in it and I always had a hard time identifying the flavors in red velvet cake. Also, I think that if a bakery uses a ton of cheap red food dye, it can give it a very strange artificial flavor. My husband always liked it so I made one for his birthday this year. I used the recipe from the Pioneer Woman cookbook (it may be on her website too) and it totally changed my view. It is a great recipe and obviously it was very fresh and the cream cheese frosting really makes it. It helps that it is gorgeous! I don't know the history of the cake but I do think it is delish when done right.
It's a southern thing definitely haha, but you really need to make sure it's made properly. I have had good red velvet cake that is absolute heaven, and I have had not-so-good red velvet cake where the cream cheese frosting was far too sweet, the cake was too dry and crumbly, or you couldn't taste the cocoa flavor at all. I love a good red velvet cake though, and it's definitely a must for any wedding with southern ties! :)
I hate to rain on your parade, but red velvet cake is probably the most unhealthy cake you could order. Our baker told us that she refuses to make it because there is so much red food coloring per serving (like 2 teaspoons!) to get it the right color. The red food coloring is made from COAL TAR and is a known carcinogin!
I don't know what the deal is, but I know that I love it! It's one of the flavors we tasted, but we ended up going with chocolate.
I feel like the only person that dislikes Red Velvet cake. I lvoe the frosting but the cake has a funny flavor.
I've never been a fan of red velvet cake - if you love the cream cheese frosting, put it with a yummy cake flavor and it would be even better! 
Just want to say that I'm not from the south and I love love love RV cake!
This is seriously cracking me up, I had NO IDEA the amount of feelings people had over red velvet cake! I'm kind of excited to have it at the wedding now. haha!
I don't know why its traditional but Red Velvet is a MUST at my wedding :) DELICIOUS!
@futuremominlaw - I have my Grandma's recipe and there is absolutely no need to add red food coloring to it. You can use beetroot to creat the color. It's the most wonderful thing ever! It's kind of strange that your bakery wouldn't offer an alternative like that.
Red velvet is just chocolate cake. It's just red! It's the exact same thing!! The only difference is that red velvet cake usually comes with cream cheese frosting.
A true red velvet cake doesn't have red dye in it. My Grandma makes it red with beet juice, something that they did during the WWII according to her.
@Ms.Charleston Pearls: I was just going to suggest that too!
I love anything with cream cheese icing. hahah.
I hate red velvet cake. It always tastes like nothing to me. It tastes like red food dye if it does have any flavors. I don't get it either!
Red velvet has cocoa in it?? I always thought it way just yellow cake colored with beet juice! I'm from nowhere near the south though, so please excuse my ignorance of what is apparently the south's favorite cake!
It is actually a chocolate cake. My Grandma said that the red used to be a chemical reaction in the coco.
I'm a fan of red velvet too and am not technically from the south. It's not quite as chocolatety as regular chocolate cake and it's usually a little denser. And having made it quite a few times, there is definitely alot of food coloring, but more on the order of 1-2 tablespoons per cake/batch. That's a lot more food coloring than you would normally use for most things, but nowhere near 2 teaspoons per serving.
ETA: I also love cream cheese frosting and one of our cakes will be red velvet with cream cheese frosting, but I have to disagree with someone about the filling. We chose (one with an amaretto and raspberry buttercream fillingbut still cream cheese frosting on top) and it was delicious. It really made it stand out as not your typical red velvet cake.
I didn't even know what red velvet cake was until 8 years ago, when we were still buying cake mix. We meant to grab the chocolate cake mix, but brought home the red velvet instead. We had no idea what it was, and we were totally grossed out by the coloring of it on the picture of the box so we exchanged it. I have tasted red velvet cake, and I still don't get it. It does not taste good at all - it's barely even chocolate, and there is way too much red dye in it. Cream cheese frosting is good and all, but I'd rather have it on carrot cake.
@FutureKMM
Yes, cream cheese frosting belongs on carrot cake in my world and that's what we had for our wedding cake.
I was born, raised and still live in the south. I eat it, but it's not my go to. I like chocolate more. :)
I DO see it becoming popular in other places. I bet it's not the same. I had a red velvet cupcake from Starbucks. I knew getting it, it wouldn't be goodl ike my aunt makes, but I decided to be dumb anyway. WORST red velvet ever!
One thing about red velvet. Not EVERYONE can make a good red velvet cake!
It's funny because just recently I have become the hugest fan of red velvet cakes. I don't think it's super popular up here but it is delicious with the frosting!! I want to say it used to be made with beet juice to make it red but I'm not positive. I think it is more popular down south. Just a side note-we had red velvet cupcakes for our True Blood premiere LOL
Red Velvet cake is actually not southern at all-It was invented at the Waldorf Astoria.
It is generally a cake with a small amount of cocoa, red food coloring and buttermilk. The chocolate taste is usually pretty subtle. You can buy natural food colorings if you don't want to make your own.
@futuremominlaw: That is totally false. You should fact-check things. There was a brief scare in the 1970s about red food coloring but it was found to be completely safe. Red Velvet cake does not cause cancer, neither does red food coloring. If it did, it would have warning labels like cigarettes.
The deal with red velvet is that its DELICIOUS. lol. Our top tier is RV.
It's DELISH!!!!!!!!! :)
We're doing top and bottom layer as butter-pound cake with fresh strawberries and the middle layer is Vanilla white chocolate with Godiva. mmmmm!
Oh yeah, it's definitely a southern thing! My fiance said we HAD to have red velvet cake and I agree because it's AMAZING!!!!
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