Found Your Sweet Spot Yet?

So chances are, if you are reading this page, you are thinking about picking up and buying a luscious Red Velvet Cake from Original Foods – a Cake for Canterbury.

We would love you to buy and enjoy this cake with your friends and family – it’s our way of making a contribution to the people of Canterbury who have been through so much over the last 12 months or more.

The Cake for Canterbury project has been made possible by our generous sponsors and our retailers, and every cake sold means a donation is made towards enhancing the parks and recreation areas around our beautiful region, for the benefit of everyone.

Thanks to our Sponsors

Our heartfelt thanks go to the sponsors who have helped make this Cake for Canterbury project possible. Funds from each cake sold are donated via EQC to the Canterbury community, focusing on the parks and recreation areas that belong to every Cantabrian. Enjoy this cake with your friends and family – you deserve it!

So What's a Red Velvet Cake?

Hugely popular in the US, but not as familiar here in New Zealand, a Red Velvet cake is a rich, moist, sweet cake with dark red or red brown colour. It's somewhere between chocolate and vanilla in flavour, topped with creamy white icing.Traditionally a Red Velvet cake has a cream cheese icing, so never to meddle with something that works well, we have kept to tradition. Our vanilla cream cheese based icing (similar to the popular carrot cake icing) is coated with a generous sprinkling of white chocolate flakes.A red velvet cake was a signature desert at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in the New York during the 1920s. In Canada it became a signature dessert of Eaton’s department store in the 1940s and 1950s. Promoted as an “exclusive” Eaton recipe , with employees who knew the recipe sworn to secrecy. A resurgence in the popularity of this cake is attributed to the 1989 film Steel Magnolias in which the grooms cake another southern tradition is a red velvet cake made in the shape of an armadillo.

All in all, this is a very special looking and tasting cake and one that we know will become a firm favourite.