Red velvet isn’t even a chocolate cake so that may be why you like it. It’s a buttermilk cake that uses a small amount of cocoa powder, I believe originally added to help make it that red color through some crazy chemistry thing (there’s a pretty interesting history behind it)

With the PH and all? Yeah, you’re probably right. Mmmm red velvet is delicious. 

I wonder why the devil’s food, though… is it the melted chocolate in normal cakes that I have trouble with? Am I not opposed to cocoa powder? 

I like hot cocoa when it’s watered down and smothered in whipped cream… 

Red velvet isn’t even a chocolate cake so that may be why you like it. It’s a buttermilk cake that uses a small amount of cocoa powder, I believe originally added to help make it that red color through some crazy chemistry thing (there’s a pretty interesting history behind it)

With the PH and all? Yeah, you’re probably right. Mmmm red velvet is delicious. 

I wonder why the devil’s food, though… is it the melted chocolate in normal cakes that I have trouble with? Am I not opposed to cocoa powder? 

I like hot cocoa when it’s watered down and smothered in whipped cream… 

(( Milk chocolate or dark chocolate? I like dark chocolate, don’t like milk chocolate at all. ))

I don’t like either of them. They’re both gross and taste bitter to me 90% of the time. If I have to have chocolate (for certain times of the month he he), a handful of peanut butter m&ms with popcorn and milk will do… sometimes I will eat a twix if I am desperate. Even the chocolate cakes that I do like have to be paired with milk or ice cream or I just can’t eat it. 

I would consider it torture to have to eat a hershey’s bar… and I have been known to eat around the chocolate chips in cookies… the BEST cookies are chocolate chip WITHOUT the chocolate chips. 😀

(( Milk chocolate or dark chocolate? I like dark chocolate, don’t like milk chocolate at all. ))

I don’t like either of them. They’re both gross and taste bitter to me 90% of the time. If I have to have chocolate (for certain times of the month he he), a handful of peanut butter m&ms with popcorn and milk will do… sometimes I will eat a twix if I am desperate. Even the chocolate cakes that I do like have to be paired with milk or ice cream or I just can’t eat it. 

I would consider it torture to have to eat a hershey’s bar… and I have been known to eat around the chocolate chips in cookies… the BEST cookies are chocolate chip WITHOUT the chocolate chips. 😀

more on chocolate

Though, now that I think about it, it doesn’t even really taste like chocolate to me. Nor does German Chocolate or Red Velvet. And they don’t make me sneeze, either, which makes me think that there is a particular ingredient in chocolate that is absent and thus makes me not allergic to it… 

From wikipedia:

“Also, because of its reduced amount of cocoa butter, cocoa powder has a more intense chocolate flavor than unsweetened chocolate. Moreover, the addition of coffee is frequently used as a liquid enhance the chocolate flavor.“

Less cocoa butter? Coffee?

Well, I do like coffee. *glances at tiramisu* 

A lot of fudge brownies don’t make me sneeze, either, but regular brownies do… I love a good fudge, but chocolate squares are nasty.

And all of this reminds me of the time Aaron and I went to the M&Ms store in Vegas and how just walking into it gave me an enormous headache… 

From dyingforchocolate:

“…and often uses cocoa as opposed to chocolate for the flavor as well as coffee. The lack of melted chocolate and the addition of coffee is typically what distinguishes a Devil’s food cake from a chocolate cake…”

HMMMMM

more on chocolate

Though, now that I think about it, it doesn’t even really taste like chocolate to me. Nor does German Chocolate or Red Velvet. And they don’t make me sneeze, either, which makes me think that there is a particular ingredient in chocolate that is absent and thus makes me not allergic to it… 

From wikipedia:

“Also, because of its reduced amount of cocoa butter, cocoa powder has a more intense chocolate flavor than unsweetened chocolate. Moreover, the addition of coffee is frequently used as a liquid enhance the chocolate flavor.“

Less cocoa butter? Coffee?

Well, I do like coffee. *glances at tiramisu* 

A lot of fudge brownies don’t make me sneeze, either, but regular brownies do… I love a good fudge, but chocolate squares are nasty.

And all of this reminds me of the time Aaron and I went to the M&Ms store in Vegas and how just walking into it gave me an enormous headache… 

From dyingforchocolate:

“…and often uses cocoa as opposed to chocolate for the flavor as well as coffee. The lack of melted chocolate and the addition of coffee is typically what distinguishes a Devil’s food cake from a chocolate cake…”

HMMMMM

I don’t like chocolate

and yet devil’s food with coconut pecan frosting is probs my favorite cake right now

😐 

I don’t like chocolate

and yet devil’s food with coconut pecan frosting is probs my favorite cake right now

😐