I love red velvet cake but I'm seeing recipes for chocolate "velvet" and white "velvet". I always thought that the "velvet" had something to do with the ingredients, i.e. the buttermilk, vinegar combination. The majority of these other flavor "velvets" do not have those ingredients which leads me to believe that it refers to the texture. Does anyone have any thoughts on this and can you share your white or chocolate versions of a "velvet" cake?

Thanks,
Sheila aka RubiPumps

Well, can't help you - but that's what I thought too.

I also see a lot of "red velvet" recipes that don't include the buttermilk/vinegar combination - and I wouldn't call them a velvet cake either.

I always thought it referred to the texture! Red velvet cake has a distinctly different texture than other cakes..........haven't personally tried the white or choc. velvet cakes but just hearing the word "velvet" after cake.sounds divine!! lol

ditto ^^^^ I guess the tweaked ones are not really velevet lol... dunno, I always make red velvet but have been wanting to try and make the white velvet... I hope debi or leah give us the answer... lol if anyonw knows... it's one of them!

Thanks everyone! Mamawrobin will you share the white velvet recipe you're talking about? Is it here on cakecentral?

This is so funny that you should bring this up. I was wondering if white velvet cake was the same as red velvet without the food color. )I should add that I was wondering this as I was cursing while trying to clean up red batter from my kitchen! )

No...white velvet is not the same as red velvet w/o the red food coloring . The White Velvet Cake receipe that I use is found here on cc. It is one of the best white cakes I've ever made. I'm sorry I can't remember who's receipe it is but it is really good. It calls for white chocolate instant pudding and International coffee White Mocha Chocolate coffee creamer....if you have any trouble finding it in receipes pm me and I will send you the receipe.

I will be trying the white velvet... let's hope I find it lol... I am kinda loose in the head when it comes to doing a cc search lol

This looks like the one...it sounds wonderful!

http://cakecentral.com/recipes/15190/white-velvet-cake

does anyone how well this recipe would work for a carved cake? thanks!

it might have just been me and the fact that i had already carved 2 other cakes that evening, but the red velvet cake completely fell apart when i tried to carve it. i tried to put a crumb coat on it and all it did was crumble off as i iced it. this lead to me having to bake a butter cake at 10 pm and carve/ice/fondant it around midnight. personally, i will never try to carve a velvet cake again. JMO.

thanks for the heads up! I think I'll use a tried & true recipe for carving then and save this one for next time! Thanks again!

mamawrobin~
thanks! I'll give it a try on a "family" cake and see how it works! can't wait to try it! it sounds delicious!