英美美語

A red velvet cake is a cake with a dark red, bright red or red-brown color. It is traditionally prepared as a layer cake topped with cream cheese or cooked roux icing. The reddish color is achieved by adding red food coloring.
Common ingredients include buttermilk, butter, flour, cookie dough for the filling, cocoa, and beetroot or red food coloring. The amount of cocoa used varies in different recipes. Cream cheese frosting and buttercream frosting are commonly used.

紅絲絨蛋糕有暗紅色，鮮紅色或紅棕色等種類。傳統上這是一層蛋糕上面加上奶油起司或熟麵粉所做成的糖霜。蛋糕的紅顏色是靠加入食用色素造成的。

紅絲絨蛋糕常見的成分包括 酪乳，牛油，麵粉，餅乾麵團為主，加上可可和甜菜或紅色食用色素。可可粉的用量隨不同的食譜變化。奶油起司糖霜和奶油糖霜是常見的糖霜。