However, if you want the heart cake to be a total blackout, whip up some Black Forest cake mix or drop black food dye in with rich red velvet.

Although red velvet cake is technically a cocoa-based cake, its crimson color is a signature element that makes it so special ...

But what exactly makes red velvet cake red velvet? Spoiler: it’s more than just food dye. No, red velvet is not a "chocolate ...

And red velvet cake is not simply just a chocolate cake with red food dye in it. These two cakes may have a long history of being mistaken for one another because they share a similar reddish ...

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 ...

The U.S. Food & Drug Administration announced a ban on Red dye No. 3 on Wednesday, Jan. 15. Several popular brands, who sell food products with FD&C Red No. 3, will have until Jan. 15, 2027 or Jan ...

Nowadays, though, most red velvet cakes contain crimson food dye. The only velvet cake we hear about these days tends to be red velvet cake. But “velvet cakes” were a Victorian trend before ...