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Sep 03, 2013

Shake Shack Partners With CakeLove To Create New Delicious Dessert Monstrosity

Shake Shack + Cake Love = Red Velvet Concrete.

Jan 03, 2006

Tickle Us Red

By new DCist Food and Drink Contributor Erin Zimmer As legend has it, when a Waldorf-Astoria guest back in the 1940s forcefully requested the hotel’s secret red velvet cake recipe, the hotel gave it to her—along with a hefty bill for the prized information. The miffed guest, whose lawyer supposedly advised her that she had to pay, apparently took revenge by spreading the recipe everywhere she could. Whether the Waldorf-Astoria tale is real or no…

 
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