Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way 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.
Red Velvet Cake is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Red Velvet Cake is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
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.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have red velvet cake using 16 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Red Velvet Cake:
- Get 190 gms maida
- Prepare 1 & 1/2 tbsp cocoa powder
- Prepare 125 gms sugar
- Prepare 85 gms butter
- Make ready 200 gms buttermilk
- Get 1 tsp baking powder
- Prepare 1/4 tsp baking soda
- Get 2 tsp vanilla essence
- Take 1.5 tsp red gel food colour
- Prepare 1 tsp white vinegar
- Get Icing
- Prepare 1/2 cup Rich's gold whipping cream
- Get 190 gms cream cheese
- Take Soaking syrup
- Make ready 3 tbsp water
- Prepare 1.5 tbsp 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:
- Soft together maida, cocoa powder, baking soda and baking powder and set aside. Cream the butter and sugar till light in texture. To the butter add the buttermilk, vanilla, red food colour and mix well. Add the sifted flour and vinegar and mix everything well.
- Pour the batter in a greased and lined cake tin and bake at 180°C for 40 to 45 minutes or till a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Let the cake cool down.
- Preparing the icing. Beat the cream till you get stiff peaks. Mix icing sugar with cream cheese and whip it well so that it is smooth and lump free. Fold in the whipped cream. Set aside in the refrigerator.
- Assembling the cake. Cut out the top crust to get a flat top. Cut the cake with the help of a thread or knife into 3 sections. Crumble the cut out crust and save for garnishing.
- On a cake board apply little cream and place one slice of the cake. Apply some soaking syrup with the help of a brush. Spread the cream cheese icing with the help of a palate knife. Repeat for all the 3 layers. Cover the entire cake with cream cheese icing and garnish using the crumbled cake. Enjoy!
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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