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red velvet cake

American  

noun

  • red velvet cakes
    plural
  1. a light chocolate cake with red food coloring giving it a distinctive reddish tinge.


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Its Waitrose supermarkets has a whodunit two-parter which leaves audiences on a cliffhanger, starring Succession's Matthew Macfadyen as a detective on the hunt to uncover who has stolen the family's red velvet cake.

From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2024

A Juneteenth menu might incorporate items like barbecued ribs or other red meat, watermelon and red velvet cake.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 16, 2023

Instead of artificial red food coloring, the batter for this red velvet cake is dyed using red beets.

From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2022

I have reached the point where I order a slice of red velvet cake, with cream cheese frosting, almost every time I stop at Dumm’s.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 6, 2021

“I’m going to make a red velvet cake later...”

From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson

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