Are you looking for the perfect special occasion or thank-you gift for friends, family, clients or vendors? Impress them by having red velvet cake gifts delivered to their door by Sweet Street Desserts.
Sweet Street is the leader in the gourmet dessert industry, producing an extraordinary line of great-tasting, high quality products that are rated #1 in taste and appearance in the restaurant industry. Our desserts have been served in The White House and at the Grammy Awards. As an innovator in the industry, we also bake desserts for restaurants in 60 countries around the globe.
We offer seriously delicious treats that will please you and everyone on your list, such as Mr. German’s Chocolate Cake, Bourbon Street Pecan Pie, and a perennial customer favorite, our Red Velvet Cupcakes.
Origins of Red Velvet Cake
“Velvet” cakes originated in the late 1800’s and were more commonly called “mahogany” cakes due to their subtle reddish color that came from a combination of cocoa, vinegar and buttermilk. The “velvet” in the name referred to the smooth texture of its fine cake crumb. The color of today’s “red” velvet cakes is enhanced with beetroot or red food coloring.
Widely associated with the American South, New York’s luxurious Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and the fancy Eaton’s department store in Toronto, Canada, it is thought to be Adams Extract (a Texas manufacturer of red food coloring) that made red velvet cake so popular in American kitchens during the Great Depression of the 1930’s and 1940’s.
Extracts and food colorings were expensive, and butter was rationed during World War II. To boost the company’s slumping sales, Adams Extract came up with a clever marketing ploy. They created the Adams Red Velvet Cake recipe, which substituted red food coloring and butter extract for the more expensive ingredients, and offered the recipe free at grocery stores everywhere. Red velvet cake became a hit.
Although the cake’s popularity waned during the 1970’s and 1980’s, the armadillo groom’s cake with its deep blood-red center in the 1989 movie Steel Magnolias may have helped revive its reputation.
Red Velvet at Sweet Street Desserts
The rich red and white colors of red velvet cakes make them holiday-ready for your personal or office Christmas party as well as for gift-giving. Of course, they’re delicious for any occasion at any time of the year.
- Red Velvet Bundt
These individual bright red little bundt cakes are dipped in bittersweet chocolate, topped with luscious cream cheese, and drizzled with white chocolate. Delicious, cute and so easy to eat.
- Red Velvet Cupcake
This classic cupcake is filled with a creamy chocolate truffle center and topped with cream cheese buttermilk fluff icing and a chocolate candy. It’s impossible to eat just one.
- Chocolate and Red Velvet Variety Pack
If you can’t decide, our variety pack includes both the Red Velvet Cupcakes described above and our Chocolate on Chocolate Cupcakes made from hand-selected South American chocolates, a bittersweet truffle center and a deep chocolate frosting.
Order Sweet Street desserts for birthday, anniversary and retirement celebrations. Serve them at your next backyard barbeque, corporate event, holiday party or wedding. Or make them your go-to thank you gift.
If you are purchasing for restaurants or coffeehouses, increase your revenue and tempt your customers with Sweet Street gourmet desserts. Download brochures and take advantage of the tools we have to offer our food service customers.
If you’re looking for unique executive gifts or they’ve put you in charge of your company’s Corporate Gifting program, our wide variety of delicious desserts are designed to please your clients, colleagues and friends and make your job easier.
To have chocolate cake, pecan pie or red velvet cake gifts delivered at holiday time or any time of the year, place your order online or contact Sweet Street Desserts customer service at (610) 929-2900.
