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Cooking & Baking

DURHAM D

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1. Red Velvet cake was originally called Waldorf Astoria cake.

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Original post)

Fri May 31, 2024, 04:50 PM

May 2024

At some point the red coloring called Red Dye #3 was determined to be bad for us and I think they changed the formula for the red cake coloring.
I have the original recipe in my grandmother's handwriting.

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Red Velvet cake was originally called Waldorf Astoria cake. DURHAM D May 2024 #1

If I were making this, and the recipe looks like a great cake, I would just skip the japple May 2024 #2

red velvet anything tends to make one's poop turn red nt msongs May 2024 #3

Poop red, vote blue!! littlemissmartypants May 2024 #4