Quote Originally Posted by smokey the elder View Post
The recipe for the red velvet cake at the Waldorf Astoria was supposedly "top secret" for awhile, but it seems simple enough to have been "reverse engineered". My grandmother used to make something called "wacky cake" which was a variant on sour cream cake; I suspect vinegar and baking soda were involved; the CO2 acts as the leavening agent. The cake was darker than chocolate, as I recall, and very moist.
Oh yeah - I remember that. I had the recipe at one time - a friend had given it to me. She called it Crazy Cake tho, and yes - it was very moist.