Red Velvet

I’ve just made 100 Red Velvet Cup-Cakes for work on Tuesday! I have been daydreaming about starting a catering company someday for years. Today I am one step closer. I was curious about the history of red velvet cake. So I went about a very extensive google search :). Funny thing is no one really knows, it’s kind of a folklore. 

I like to imagine a women in her kitchen attempting to make a chocolate dessert for her family, realizing she didn’t have enough coco powder to make a chocolate cake; she got a little creative. When she saw the cake looking grayish (lack of chocolate) she decided to add food coloring. She went with the red...well because- who would eat a green or blue cake? And then as she set her warm beautiful cake on the table, her family stood to applause her mad baking skill and amazingness. The end.

Colossians 3v1-3 “ Since you have been raised to new life with Christ, set your sights on the realities of heaven, where Christ sit’s at God’s right hand in the place of honor and power. Let heaven fill your thoughts. Do not think only about things down here on earth. For you died when Christ died, and your real life is HIDDEN with Christ in God”.

Red velvet is a basic butter/white cake with red food-coloring.  But the secret to this red cake is the faint hint of coco powder hidden within. We are called to be like coco powder, hidden in Christ. When we walk through our daily life, it is not Christ hidden in us, but we in him. When we place our lives in Christ hand’s, we move from an ordinary life to an extraordinary adventure. Who knew cake could be so spiritual? I guess I’ll go eat more cake in the name of Jesus!