Hey everyone, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, red velvet cake. One of my favorites food recipes. 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 in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Red velvet cake is something which I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook red velvet cake using 18 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Red velvet cake:
- Prepare 2 cups all purpose flour
- Take 2 teaspoons unsweetened cocoa
- Take 1 teaspoon baking soda
- Get 1 teaspoon baking powder
- Take 1 teaspoon table salt
- Prepare 2 cups sugar
- Take 1 cup vegetable oil
- Make ready 2 large eggs
- Take 1 cup buttermilk
- Take 2 teaspoons vanilla
- Take 1-1 oz bottle of red food coloring
- Take 1/2 cup brewed coffee
- Make ready 1 teaspoon white vinegar
- Prepare cream cheese frosting
- Take 2-8 oz packages of cream cheese
- Prepare 1/2 cup butter, softened
- Get 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- Take 4 cups powdered sugar
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. 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.
Instructions to make Red velvet cake:
- Frosting
- Add softened cream cheese into large bowl.Pour in milk, butter and vanilla extract.Mix until well combined.Pour in half of the powdered sugar.Mix until combined.Add the remaining powdered sugar.Mix until smooth and fluffy.Use a spatula to scrape down the side of the bowl if needed.
- Cake batter
- Preheat oven to 325 F. Generously grease and flour (2) 9-inch round cake pans. Set aside.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, baking powder, cocoa powder, and salt. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine the sugar and vegetable oil.Mix in the eggs, buttermilk, vanilla and red food coloring until combined.Stir in the coffee and white vinegar.Combine the wet ingredients with the dry ingredients a little at a time, mixing after each addition, just until combined.
- (Batter will be thin) Pour the batter evenly into each pan.Bake in the middle rack for 30-40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out with moist crumbs clinging to it. Do not over bake as the cake will continue to cook as it cools.
- Let pans cool on a cooling rack until the pans are warm to the touch.Slide a knife or offset spatula around the inside of the pans to loosen the cake from the pan.Gently remove the cakes from the pan and let them finish cooling. (The warm cake will be very delicate)
- Frost the cake with cream cheese frosting when the cakes have cooled completely.
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. The combo of vinegar and buttermilk makes a red velvet cake extra tender, light, and fluffy.
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