Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, red velvet cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. 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 favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look wonderful. Red Velvet Cake is something that I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have red velvet cake using 12 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Red Velvet Cake:
- Make ready 310 g flour
- Prepare 16 g unsweetened cocoa
- Take 5 g baking soda
- Get 5 g salt
- Prepare 113 g unsalted butter
- Prepare 300 g sugar
- Take 2 eggs
- Get 220 g vegetable oil
- Get 5 ml white vinegar
- Take 10 g vanilla extract
- Prepare 240 g buttermilk
- Get 1-2 oz red food coloring
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. However I am willing to try it again just to make sure it was not my own fault.
Steps 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
Overall the cake was nothing special. However I am willing to try it again just to make sure it was not my own fault. 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. This is similar to the original recipe that began the red velvet craze.
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