Red Velvet Cake
Red Velvet Cake

Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, red velvet cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look 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 current trending meals in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Red Velvet Cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

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

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

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.

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.

Overall the cake was nothing special. However I am willing to try it again just to make sure it was not my own fault. This is similar to the original recipe that began the red velvet craze. It was developed by the Adams Extract company in Gonzales, Tex. The "red" makes sense, but what about the "velvet" in this cake's iconic name?

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