Use Sarah's Red Velvet Cake recipe on here. I made it and it was soooo yummy. I used the 2 bottles of red food coloring but I saw that it only needed one and a bunch of people have been saying that the recipe comes out just as good with 1 bottle of food coloring. I made it with cream cheese frosting and it was heavenly!

http://forum.cakecentral.com/cake_recipe-7027-Sarahs-Red-Velvet-Cake-TWEAKED.html

(here is the link for the recipe with 1 bottle of food coloring instead of 2)

Oh - and I use softasilk cake flour.

I too love Sarah's recipe. I do have Elisa Strauss' book so I may have to try hers too after reading the reviews here.

The only thing is about the red velvet cake is that I could "taste" the food coloring and I used only 1 bottle. I used Americacolor and someone told me to use an inexpensive grocery store brand instead cuz Americolor is very intense so I will try that next time.

I am still new to actually selling my cakes, but the most requested flavor I get is my red velvet. It was something my family always had. In my opinion you must use cream cheese icing.

Red velvet is my childrens favorite and I just delivered my first wedding cake and it was red velvet. I now use the crusting cream cheese icing from cc and have always had the best of reviews. Works wonderful in cupcakes as well.

Have to agree with the MacCormicks recipe as my personnal favorite. But honestly in a pinch a doctored up box mix as stated before is wonderful as well.

Its still my favorite and always will be. My husband says its just a souther thing

With the doctored mix I've never had a bitter taste and it never turns out dry. Scratch RV can be tempermental & that's why I'm glad I have the docotored mix recipe.

Any one ever do RV with a fruit filling or fruity flavour BC? The birthday boy has decided he wants s'thing fruity flavoured!

The recipe I have, I mix the vanilla, food coloring and cocoa together to form a paste. I actually don't fold at all, and get a moist delicious cake. It is supposed to taste lightly of chocolate, and a slightly sour taste from the buttermilk, but it is delicious!

The recipe I use is the Waldorf Astoria red velvet (it's on recipezaar.com). In the south, you can only eat RV with the cooked frosting! The frosting is lighter, almost like whipped topping, but tastes SO much better! I haven't tried any other RV recipe, haven't ever needed to, but I do highly recommend the Waldorf Astoria one.

When I make RV, it is usually a doctored box cake mix. I always add chocolate instant pudding and instant coffee. These two ingredients adds a boost to the mix. I have also add this to the scratch recipe and have been very happy with the results. My family prefers the cream cheese icing.