Aside from the fact that it's the tastiest dessert ever.
Let's just get this out of the way: Red velvet cake is delicious and you should be eating it.
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As you may know, the cake is usually topped with yummy cream cheese frosting.
Though there are plenty of variations on that one.
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And if you haven't figured it out already, the cake has a blood red interior.
Although some people think that the cake gets its color from a chemical reaction between the cocoa powder and baking soda, the truth is (usually) much simpler: a lot of red food coloring.
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Red velvet cake used to be colored with beets instead of food coloring. Yummy. (?)
During the food rationing of World War II, bakers used beets to enhance the color of their cakes.
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