Holiday Ayo - Cakes are very popular all over the world. However, there are several types of cakes that are more popular than others, one of which is in the United States.

Here are some from the US:

Red Velvet Cake

This American classic is traditionally made for Valentine’s Day and Christmas. Red velvet cake is typically covered in a French-style butter roux icing, though recently cream cheese frosting and buttercream have both been used as a simpler and tastier alternative.

During World War II and the Depression, this moist cake got its vibrant coloring from boiled beets, but has since adapted into red food coloring courtesy of a Texan company called Adams Extract. The cake gets its light and fluffy texture from the reaction caused by mixing buttermilk and vinegar together in addition to eggs, sugar, butter, baking soda, flour, cocoa powder, and salt.

Japanese Cheesecake

Known as soufflé cheesecake in Japan and cotton cheesecake or Japanese cheesecake outside of Japan, this light and fluffy dessert is made by incorporating whisked egg whites into the cake mixture (eggs, milk, sugar, cream cheese), and the combination is then baked in a bain-marie.

The Japanese cheesecake is more fluffy and sponge-like than regular cheesecake, and it's sometimes eaten cold, but most people prefer to eat it straight out of the oven while it's still hot, so it almost melts in the mouth. It was created by a Japanese chef Tomotaro Kuzuno who went to Germany in the 1960s and found käsekuchen, a type of German cheesecake.

Kremówka

This popular Polish dessert is a variation of the classic cremeschnitte, a treat known under different names in many central and eastern European countries. In its simplest form, kremówka couples vanilla-flavored pastry cream that is placed between two layers of thin and crisp puff pastry.

While it is usually dusted with a layer of powdered sugar, some variations adapt the cake with an additional layer of whipped cream. In Poland, kremówka is also known as Napoleonka, named after a similar French dessert consisting of three layers of puff pastry coated with pastry cream.