Red Velvet Cake
Red Velvet Cake

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Red Velvet Cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Red Velvet Cake is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

Browse For Yummy & Hassle-Free Cake & Cupcake Recipes From Kraft®. 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.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook red velvet cake using 11 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Red Velvet Cake:
  1. Take 2 1/4 cup sifted cake flour (not self rising)
  2. Take 1/4 cup cocoa powder
  3. Get 1/2 tsp salt
  4. Make ready 8 tbsp (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature
  5. Prepare 1 1/2 cup sugar
  6. Prepare 2 large eggs, at room temperature
  7. Prepare 2 tbsp liquid red food coloring
  8. Make ready 1 tsp vanilla extract
  9. Prepare 1 cup buttermilk, at room temperature
  10. Take 2 tsp distilled white vinegar
  11. Take 1 tsp baking soda

Make a paste of cocoa and red food coloring; add to creamed mixture. 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. Beat in food coloring, vinegar and vanilla.

Instructions to make Red Velvet Cake:
  1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease two 9"x2" round cake pans.
  2. Sift flour, cocoa, and salt into a bowl.
  3. In stand mixer with paddle attachment, beat butter at low speed until creamy
  4. Add sugar; blend on medium speed, scraping bowl occasionally, untill fluffy, about 3 mins.
  5. Add eggs 1 at a time, mixing well after each. Scrape bowl; add food coloring and vanilla.
  6. On low speed, beat in flour mixture in thirds, alternating with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
  7. In small bowl, stir together vinegar and baking soda.
  8. Stir into batter
  9. Divide batter between prepared pans; spread evenly.
  10. Bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. 25 to 30 mins.

Mix soda and vinegar and gently fold into cake batter. Beat in food coloring, vinegar and vanilla. 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. From the color to the crumb, this homemade red velvet cake is a dessert classic. It was developed by the Adams Extract company in Gonzales, Tex.

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