Red velvet cake
Red velvet cake

Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, red velvet cake. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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.

Red velvet cake is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Red velvet cake is something which I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have red velvet cake using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Red velvet cake:
  1. Prepare 1 1/2 cups white sugar
  2. Make ready 2 eggs
  3. Make ready 2 tablespoons cocoa
  4. Make ready 4 tablespoons red food coloring
  5. Prepare 1 teaspoon salt
  6. Take 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  7. Make ready 1 cup buttermilk
  8. Take 2 1/2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
  9. Get 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
  10. Make ready 1 tablespoon distilled white vinegar
  11. Take Icing: 5 tablespoons all-purpose flour, 1 cup milk 1 cup white sugar 1 cup butter, room temperature 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

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.

Steps to make Red velvet cake:
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease two 9-inch round pans.
  2. Beat shortening and 1 1/2 cups sugar until very light and fluffy. Add eggs and beat well.
  3. Make a paste of cocoa and red food coloring; add to creamed mixture. Mix salt, 1 teaspoon vanilla, and buttermilk together. 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. Don't beat or stir the batter after this point.
  4. Pour batter into prepared pans. Bake in preheated oven until a tester inserted into the cake comes out clean, about 30 minutes. Cool cakes completely on wire rack.
  5. To Make Icing: Cook 5 tablespoons flour and milk over low heat till thick, stirring constantly. Let cool completely! While mixture is cooling, beat 1 cup sugar, butter, and 1 teaspoon vanilla until light and fluffy. Add cooled flour mixture and beat until frosting is a good spreading consistency. Frost cake layers when completely cool

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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