Red velvet cake sounds so luxurious—like a soft, creamy, and expensive version of a regular cake, but so much better. Despite red velvet cake's popularity in recent years, most people have no idea ...

Red velvet cakes today use food coloring to achieve their bright red color. But it wasn’t always this way, and history shows there was initially a natural phenomenon behind it. To understand the color ...

Red Velvet Cheesecake Brownies combine a red velvet layer with a creamy cheesecake swirl for a decadent, fudgy brownie. Their classic red color and tangy swirl make them a classic. Perfect for ...

Red velvet cake has traditionally been made with red food coloring. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently issued a nationwide ban on artificial food dye Red 3. This recipe for Healthful Red ...

For the better part of the past century, red velvet cake has appeared in cookbooks and on menus, dazzling diners with its lipstick-red and snow-white layers. Popular year-round, today, the cake is ...

This story has been updated. When she was growing up in Athens, Ga., a thick slice of red velvet cake marked special occasions for writer and cookbook author Nicole Taylor. “In the South, when I was ...

Whether you look forward to Valentine’s Day or completely dread it, I have something to make the day as sweet as can be: red velvet crepe cake. Made with layer upon layer of silky cocoa-kissed crepes ...