Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, red velvet cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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Red Velvet Cake is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Red Velvet Cake is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook red velvet cake using 12 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Red Velvet Cake:
- Prepare 310 g flour
- Prepare 16 g unsweetened cocoa
- Prepare 5 g baking soda
- Take 5 g salt
- Make ready 113 g unsalted butter
- Make ready 300 g sugar
- Make ready 2 eggs
- Take 220 g vegetable oil
- Take 5 ml white vinegar
- Take 10 g vanilla extract
- Prepare 240 g buttermilk
- Make ready 1-2 oz red food coloring
This Red Velvet cake was definitely not what I expected. It could be that I have no experience with Red Velvet cake but with this recipe the cake was much to heavy. The Icing was bland and honestly tasted like flour. Overall the cake was nothing special.
Instructions to make Red Velvet Cake:
- Preheat oven to 180° C and prepare baking time.
- Sieve the dry ingredients (flour, cocoa, salt, baking soda) in a bowl. Mix and set aside
- In a separate bowl, mix butter and sugar until well combined
- Add in the eggs one at a time
- Add the vegetable oil; beat until the oil is incorporated into the mixure
- Add white vinegar and vanilla extract and beat
- Add buttermilk and beat until the mixture has a smooth consistency
- Incorporate the flour mixture little by little until all the flour is well mixed in to the mixture
- Gradually add the food coloring as you beat the mixture
- Put the batter into the baking tin and put in the oven. Bake for 30 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean
The Icing was bland and honestly tasted like flour. Overall the cake was nothing special. However I am willing to try it again just to make sure it was not my own fault. The "red" makes sense, but what about the "velvet" in this cake's iconic name? Food historians says it was a common description during the Victorian era, when the term described cakes that had an especially soft and "velvety" crumb.
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