Cranberry Red Velvet Cake

What’s made with cocoa but doesn’t taste like chocolate, and is a brilliant ruby-red hue but has no added food coloring? If you said red velvet cake, then you sure do know your desserts! Something of a pop culture sleeper hit, the red velvet cake is said to have originated from wartime scarcity, a humble confection made of the most basic staples that just happened to turn red due to the strange alchemy between natural cocoa powder and baking soda. Most renditions rely instead on some artifi