Cake Walk Thursday #389

[pomtzu]

I thought red velvet cake originated at Eaton department store of Canada in the 1950's.

Actually it was supposed to have been popular at some fancy hotel in NY in the 1920's, but where it originally came from, I don't know.

[slick]

Does this mean we can have our cake and eat it too?
Well I guess that will be a cake walk!
Won't that be a slice.
It would the icing on the cake.

Ok, Ok, I'm having a crumby day. Got a lot on my plate.

Oh please, I'll stop now. No cake for me. I'll just have Mocha Frap please.

[RICHARD]

Oh please, I'll stop now. No cake for me. I'll just have Mocha Frap please.

One Mocha Frap...
Remember, there is always someone having a WORSER time than you are having....

DONE?

[Pinot's Mom]

Ok, first order of business....Red Velvet Cake is a a devil's food cake originally. It was a signature at the Waldorf Astoria in New York in the 1920's. Eaton's department store in Canada had a recipe in the 40's and 50's, but it was not original. As far as it being southern; that came from the movie Steel Magnolias.

Now, I'd love blueberry cake, please. A vodka and lemonade would be nice with that, thanks! I have no access to my kitchen (as some of you may have read in Pinot's post).

[RICHARD]

Ok, first order of business....Red Velvet Cake is a a devil's food cake originally. It was a signature at the Waldorf Astoria in New York in the 1920's. Eaton's department store in Canada had a recipe in the 40's and 50's, but it was not original. As far as it being southern; that came from the movie Steel Magnolias.

Now, I'd love blueberry cake, please. A vodka and lemonade would be nice with that, thanks! I have no access to my kitchen (as some of you may have read in Pinot's post).

One Vodka and lemonade and a slice of blueberry cake!

Thanks for the info!

DONE!

[Catherinedana]

OOOOooo Cake! I haven't had cake in quite a while. . .

I'd like chocolate and vanilla swirl pound cake (the end piece) with a scoop of chocolate chip mint ice cream. I get the feeling that I may have requested this at Thursday's before. . unless I'm having a voo ja day!

[smokey the elder]

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.