Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, red velvet cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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Red Velvet Cake is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Red Velvet Cake is something which I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have red velvet cake using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Red Velvet Cake:
- Get 2 1/2 cups flour
- Prepare 1 1/2 cups oil
- Make ready 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- Take 1 teaspoon baking soda
- Make ready 1 tablespoon white vinegar
- Take 2 cups sugar
- Prepare 2 tablespoons cocoa
- Get 1 oz red food coloring
- Get half teaspoon of salt
- Make ready 2 eggs
- Prepare 1 cup buttermilk
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.
Steps to make Red Velvet Cake:
- Preheat oven to 350 Cream eggs sugar oil and vanilla on high for 2 minutes
- Sift salt flour and cocoa in separate bowl
- Add food coloring to egg mixture and blend for one minute
- Alternate adding flour and buttermilk ending with flour to the egg mixture
- Combine vinegar and baking soda then FOLD into batter DON'T over mix
- Coat two 8 or 9 inch pans with oil and dust with flour
- Add batter to pans and bake for 25-30 min until tooth pick comes out clean or with crumbs let it cool all the way
- Ice with cream cheese icing and decorate with nuts (nuts are optional)
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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