Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, red velvet cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Historically, red velvet cake was just chocolate cake tinted red from the acid in cocoa powder, not from food coloring. Nowadays most cocoa powders are alkalized, as in stripped of acid. Look for a non-alkalized one for this old-fashioned recipe. Completing the classic look is a coat of bright white ermine frosting, cooked the old-fashioned way.
Red Velvet Cake is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Red Velvet Cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook red velvet cake using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Red Velvet Cake:
- Prepare 1/2 cup butter.(2 tbsp for greasing)
- Take 3 tbsp cocoa powder
- Prepare 1 1/2 cups sugar
- Prepare 2 eggs
- Get 2 tsp vanilla essence
- Take 2 tbsp food colouring
- Prepare 1 tsp salt
- Take 1 tsp baking soda
- Take 2 1/2 cups flour. Sifted
- Make ready 1 cup whole milk
Add the flour to the batter, alternating with the buttermilk mixture, mixing just until incorporated. Mix soda and vinegar and gently fold into cake batter. The combo of vinegar and buttermilk makes a red velvet cake extra tender, light, and fluffy. The striking red color makes it unforgettable.
Steps to make Red Velvet Cake:
- Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Greese the pans.
- Cream butter and sugar together. Add eggs one at a time and beat vigorously until each is incorporated. Mix in vanilla.
- In a separate bowl, make a paste of the remaining 2 tbsp of cocoa and the food colouring. Blend into the butter.
- Sift together the remaining dry ingredients. Alternating 2 batches each. Add dry ingredients and whole milk to rhe butter mixture. In the last of milk, mix in the vinegar before adding to the butter.mix until well blended
- Divide the butter among 3 pans and bake for about 20 to 25 minutes
- Cool in a cooling rack completly.
- To assemble, remove 1 cake from its pan and place it flat side down on a serving platter. Drop about 1 cup of icing onto the cake and using a flat spatula, spread evenly over the top of first layer. Use the remaining frosting to cover the top and sides of the cake.
The combo of vinegar and buttermilk makes a red velvet cake extra tender, light, and fluffy. The striking red color makes it unforgettable. If you have leftover cake scraps you can make these Red. This is similar to the original recipe that began the red velvet craze. It was developed by the Adams Extract company in Gonzales, Tex.
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