Learn how to make Southern-style red velvet cake with a rich, moist crumb and creamy cream cheese frosting using Shaunda Necole’s classic recipe from thesoulfoodpot.com.

With its striking crimson crumb and contrasting swirls of silky white frosting, red velvet cake is both compelling and mysterious. Not quite chocolate and definitely not vanilla, its flavor lies ...

Red velvet cake, a tradition in the southern United States for more than a century, recently has become so insanely popular in bakeries and on dessert menus that it now has international renown.

This story has been updated. When she was growing up in Athens, Ga., a thick slice of red velvet cake marked special occasions for writer and cookbook author Nicole Taylor. “In the South, when I was ...