SO THIS IS WHERE IT ALL BEGAN...NEW YORK!!!

January 23, 2009 I was in New York City with my sister in law Mary and my darling niece Allison....this is where it started. They were telling me about this wonderful bakery that was a MUST stop place called Magnolia Bakery.

This picture shows us at Rockefellar Square eating our amazing cake from there. It was such a quaint little bakery that had a very large selection of large cupcakes. We sampled the "birthday" cake, red velvet and carrot cake. The place was packed and I quickly understood why. I thought it was good but according to Allison and Mary it was a lot drier than normal.

The next weekend we had our good friends Brad and Dana Smith over for dinner. She was in charge of desert and brought a chocolate cake from Nothing Bundt Cakes. I typically am not too fond of bundt cakes as I find them rather dry. But this was amazing and the frosting was so good but not overpowering. Dana told me that the Red Velvet Cakes are way better.

I mentioned that I have tried several different recipes for Red Velvet cake but they too seem to be dry. Of course unplanned, the NEXT weekend, Monte and I go out to lunch with my brother Steve and Sue to Pei Wei. What do we see? Nothing Bundt Cake right across the parking lot!

So I had to COAX everyone to come with me after eating a huge lunch to get desert there. I really wanted to try the red velvet cake. They sell large cakes but they also serve individual size cakes.

Of course Monte and I got the Red Velvet and it WAS TO DIE FOR! So now I am hooked and on the search! I searched everywhere on the internet to see if they had the bakeries recipe for their Red Velvet Cake and I can't find it. But maybe you can help me.....DO YOU HAVE A MOIST RED VELVET CAKE recipe that you can recommend??? If so please send my way!!!!

So that is where it all began...back in NYC!!!