Red Velvet Pancakes with Cream Cheese Topping - Recipe Girl (2024)

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Why is red velvet paired with cream cheese? ›

Generous use of premium cream cheese in the frosting ensures a sumptuous and delightful taste experience. The creamy, tangy frosting perfectly complements the moist and velvety crumb of the Red Velvet Cake, resulting in a harmonious symphony of flavors that linger on the palate.

What flavor is red velvet? While there are cocoa undertones, red velvet is not chocolate cake because it balances both chocolate and vanilla flavors. It contains cocoa but not the same quantity as traditional chocolate cake, resulting in a more subtle cocoa flavor and tanginess due to the buttermilk and vinegar.

Chocolate cake is flavored with cocoa powder, chocolate chips, or melted chocolate. On the other hand, though red velvet cake has cocoa powder that gives it a slightly chocolatey flavor, the buttermilk and vinegar add a tart edge making it different between the two.

Red velvet cake comes in many different variations, but artificial food coloring is often used, and the icing loads on fat and sugar. It can be anywhere from 250 to 500 calories, so choose wisely.

Red velvet cake with real cream cheese frosting contains 360 calories per 83 g serving. This serving contains 18 g of fat, 3 g of protein and 45 g of carbohydrate. The latter is 33 g sugar and 1 g of dietary fiber, the rest is complex carbohydrate.

A regular 4-inch pancake made from a prepared mix contains 95 calories, while a 6-inch pancake has about 149 calories.

That's right: even though you may not realize it, red velvet cake's predominant flavor is that of chocolate. As for toppings, French-style butter icing is actually the most traditional, but as it's very time consuming classic buttercream and cream cheese frostings have become more common nowadays.

Cream cheese frosting and buttercream frosting are variations that have increased in popularity. Red velvet cake may also have roots in black foodways and is sometimes considered to be soul food in the South. The color red is often used in Juneteenth celebrations to symbolize bloodshed in the fight against slavery.

In my opinion, cream cheese frosting pairs best with red velvet's flavor and this frosting recipe is really simple. You need brick-style cream cheese, butter, confectioners' sugar, a splash of milk, vanilla extract, and a pinch of salt to offset the sweetness. It glides on seamlessly and is silky smooth.

What flavor pairs well with red velvet? ›

Some delicious flavor combinations for red velvet cake include: Raspberry buttercream. Chocolate ganache. Cream cheese and lemon.