Red Velvet Cake

What is it?

Layers of red-tinted cake meet cream cheese frosting in this bakery-style dessert from H-E-B. Vanilla cake base tinted red and flavored with a little cocoa shows up as a soft, lightly cocoaed crumb between thick rounds of frosting. Cream cheese brings the tangy, smooth finish on top and between each layer. Compared with plain chocolate cake in H-E-B's bakery case, this one leans less on cocoa and more on texture and frosting. It's a pre-made layer cake meant to be sliced and served as is, with the classic pairing of tinted cake and tangy frosting doing most of the work.