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=__ Intro Draft: __=

A little bit about my topic and why I chose it...
====Red velvet cakes have been around since the 19th century. A red velvet cake is a rich, moist, sweet cake with a dark red, bright red, or red-brown color it is usually prepared as a layer cake somewhere between chocolate and vanilla flavor, topped with a creamy white icing.====

====Red Velvet cake is one of the most distinctive cake around. It is most popular in the Southern United States. Red velvet cake started of as a rumor and from their it got popular and bakeries started making the cake.====

====You could see red velvet cake during special occasion or as a dessert in a restaurant or bakery. Most red velvet cake ingredients usually include buttermilk, butter, flour, cocoa powder, and either beets or red food coloring to get it's distinctive color. If you follow the instruction for the recipe you can make a great red velvet cake. Red velvet cake were before called Devil's Food Cake. The red velvet cake interest me from any other cake because it is unique and tasty and ever since I tried it I wanted to know how to make one.====

**The questions that my research addressed are:**


 * 1) ==== What are the ingredients for making a red velvet cake? ====
 * 2) ==== How to keep a red velvet cake moist? ====
 * 3) ==== How long does it takes to make a red velvet cake? ====
 * 4) ==== Where does the red velvet cake comes from? ====
 * 5) ==== What frosting would go best on the red velvet cake? ====
 * 6) ==== How does the red velvet cake becomes red? ====

**May 13th, 2011** =**Annotated Bibliography-A list of my sources and what I learned from each of them.**=

====The main purpose of this website is to tell the history of how the red velvet cake started. This site was created by a journalist who went around the world to find out about the origin of the red velvet cake. It has a lot of information and background story about the red velvet cake. What was most useful to me about this website were the dates and the rumor that started the red velvet cake Before red velvet cakes were called Devil's Food Cake. The cake got popularity around the 19th century.====

====The main purpose of this website is to give the recipe and instructions of how to make a red velvet cake. This site was created by a Chef. This site gives a good recipe and instructions on how to make the cake and the comments that people posted it say this recipe is good and tasted good. What was useful to me about this website was they use easy word to understand how to make the cake. The red velvet cake started of by a rumor and got attention and people got interested and went to taste it.====

====The main purpose of this website is to inform people about where the red velvet cake came from. This website was created by a journalist. It is an article about the red velvet cake and where it comes from and it has links of where he got his information. What was most useful to me about this website was the links he has because it shows how he got his information and that he didn't make it up. The red velvet cake comes from the South.====

Vocabulary That Are Important To Understanding My Topic:

 * 1) **Red Velvet Cake:** A cake with a distinctive red color that is moist and sweet.
 * 2) **Beets:** A nutrition juice that is using to turn the red velvet cake red.
 * 3) **Devil Food Cake:** The another name for red velvet cake
 * 4) **Icing:** Another word for frosting

=Planning My Presentation: (DRAFT)=
 * ==== Thinking of doing a display board. ====
 * ==== Introduce my topic. ====
 * ==== Talk about my topic and show pictures of the red velvet cake. ====
 * ==== Say why it interest me. ====
 * ==== Maybe trying making one myself and bring it to class so they could try it and give suggestion on what I could improve in. ====
 * Answer all the question that my research addressed.
 * ==== Explain how to make it and the ingredients that are needed. ====
 * ==== Talk of where you could get some of the ingredients. ====
 * ==== Talk about what I leared. ====
 * ==== Audience questions. ====

=My Research Days:=

=May 12th, 2011= Today I am going to find the answer to this questions: Where does the red velvet comes from? What frosting would go best on the red velvet cake? How does the red velvet cake becomes red?

[] This two websites give great information of where the red velvet cake come from.

[] This website give the original frosting that goes with the red velvet cake and the comments say that it tastes good.

[] This websites say that a red velvet cake can be turn red by two ways either using to bottles of red food coloring or beet powder.

=May 2nd, 2011= Today I am going to try and find the answers to this questions: What is the origin of the red velvet cake? How long does it takes to make a red velvet cake?

[] This website gives out useful information about how the red velvet cake originated and gives other useful information about the cake.

[] It gives great directions on how to bake the red velvet cakes and how long it takes.

Next I want to find out what kind of frosting would go best with the red velvet cake.

=April 28th, 2011= Today I try to find the answers to these 2 question 1. What are the ingredient for making a red velvet cake? 2. How to keep the red velvet cake moist?

I Found the answers to the questions the link to the answers are: First question: __**[]**__ It gives a great list of ingredient and how to make it. __**[]**__ It gives great information on how to do the best red velvet cake. Second question: __**[]**__ It gave a great tip and information on how to keep the cake moist.

=April 14th, 2011= =__**Research Links**__= These are some research links I found: __**[]**__

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