Red velvet cake could be the Lady Gaga of the dessert world. It's flashy, trendy and strikingly dramatic. It's been the subject of all kinds of rumor and speculation. And its past is shrouded in ...

Cutting into a birthday cake isn’t what it used to be. Nowadays, sprinkles erupt from the inside, frosting is arranged in ombre patterns or in this case, a swirly rainbow of cake is revealed. There’s ...

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 ...

“Why use chemicals to achieve what you can find in nature?” asks Everist, who began making her own food coloring to tint the frosting for baby-shower cakes. “Expectant mothers wanted pink or blue, and ...