{"id":267,"date":"2020-08-23T15:34:07","date_gmt":"2020-08-23T19:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/?p=267"},"modified":"2020-08-23T15:34:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-23T19:34:07","slug":"red-velvet-beet-cake-from-iconica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/2020\/08\/red-velvet-beet-cake-from-iconica\/","title":{"rendered":"Red velvet beet cake from Iconica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/red_velvet_cake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-269\" src=\"http:\/\/salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/red_velvet_cake-300x246.jpg\" alt=\"Red velvet beet cake from Iconica\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/red_velvet_cake-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/red_velvet_cake-1024x839.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/red_velvet_cake-768x629.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/red_velvet_cake-1536x1258.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/red_velvet_cake-100x82.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/red_velvet_cake.jpg 1768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>As I told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iconicasocialclub.com\/\">Iconica<\/a> folks, red velvet is not a favorite flavor of mine; I hoped the beet would make it more interesting. I wouldn&#8217;t have been able to pick it out, but the texture was not only moist but particularly sturdy &#8211; not chewy, yet resistant to the tooth in a pleasurable way. I wished the frosting had been a little more assertive on the lemon front. The cake itself had the classic &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what this tastes like but vaguely cocoa?&#8221; of red velvet cake, which is why I don&#8217;t much like it. Not a winner, but at least the beet meant it wasn&#8217;t soaked in red food coloring.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Compared to a platonic version &#8211; 4\/5? (hard to say)<\/li>\n<li>Originality: 4\/5<\/li>\n<li>Value for money: 3.5\/5 ($4.50 before tip)<\/li>\n<li>Effort factor (1 = could make in my sleep; 5 = no way would I ever make this for myself): 4.5\/5, grating beets being an especially big nope<\/li>\n<li>9 minutes to eat, 12 to write<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I told the Iconica folks, red velvet is not a favorite flavor of mine; I hoped the beet would make it more interesting. I wouldn&#8217;t have been able to pick it out, but the texture was not only moist but particularly sturdy &#8211; not chewy, yet resistant to the tooth in a pleasurable way. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,21],"tags":[24,30,23,29,25,31],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-northampton","category-treats","tag-cake","tag-iconica","tag-northampton","tag-savoring","tag-treats","tag-writing-experiments"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.salticid.com\/kogblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}