Red velvet cake
Red velvet cake

Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, red velvet cake. It is 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 quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Red velvet cake is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have red velvet cake using 19 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Red velvet cake:
  1. Take 1 1/2 cup All purpose flour
  2. Take 1/4 cup corn flour
  3. Prepare 1.5 tbsp cocoa powder
  4. Take 1 pinch salt
  5. Get 1 tsp baking soda
  6. Get 1 cup sugar
  7. Make ready 1/2 cup canola oil or any flavorless oil
  8. Get 1 cup Thick buttermilk/chaas
  9. Take 2 tsp white vinegar
  10. Take 1 tsp vanilla essence
  11. Take as needed Red food colour
  12. Take For The Sugar Syrup
  13. Prepare 1/4 cup Sugar
  14. Prepare 1/4 cup Water
  15. Get Cream Cheese Frosting
  16. Take 1 1/2 cup cream cheese softened
  17. Take 5 tbsp unsalted butter softened
  18. Get 1 tsp vanilla Essence
  19. Make ready to taste 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. The combo of vinegar and buttermilk makes a red velvet cake extra tender, light, and fluffy. The striking red color makes it unforgettable.

Instructions to make Red velvet cake:
  1. Pre heat oven to 180 degree C for 15 minutes then Grease the baking pan and keep aside,Sieve all dry ingredients in one bowl. Give it a quick mix with a dry spoon
  2. Mix all wet ingredients in another bowl including food colour, mix very well
  3. Add the dry ingredients to wet ingredients and mix until just combined, do not over mix.
  4. Transfer the batter into the greased pen and tap it lightly and Bake them for 25 - 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Do not over bake. - - Let it rest for 10 minutes in the pan then turn out onto a cooling rack and allow to cool completely
  5. For the Frosting - - Combine the butter and cream cheese in a deep bowl and beat it using an electric beater till smooth. - - Gradually add the sugar and beat again till smooth. Cover with a lid and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.
  6. For the sugar syrup - - Combine the sugar and water in a microwave safe bowl and microwave on high for 2 minutes. Mix well and keep aside.
  7. Place the red velvet sponge cake on a flat, dry surface and slice it horizontally into 2 equal layers. Keep aside. - - Place both the layers of the red velvet sponge cake on dry surface and soak it with sugar syrup evenly over each layer.
  8. Put ½ cup of the prepared cream cheese frosting on the lower half of the sponge and spread it evenly. - - Cover with the other half with the soaked sugar syrup side facing upwards and press it lightly. - - Spread 1 cup of the prepared cream cheese frosting on top and at the sides of the cake with the help of a palette knife. - - put the remaining prepared cream cheese frosting in a piping bag with a star nozzle fitted in. Decorate the circumference of the cake by making any design of your choice.
  9. Make few swirls at equal distance - - Sprinkle some cake crumb and edible coloured sprinklers and balls. - - Refrigerate for atleast 1 hour, Cut into wedges and serve chilled. - - Notes - - I have used Americolor super red gel colour 1 tablespoon.

The combo of vinegar and buttermilk makes a red velvet cake extra tender, light, and fluffy. The striking red color makes it unforgettable. If you have leftover cake scraps you can make these Red. This is similar to the original recipe that began the red velvet craze. It was developed by the Adams Extract company in Gonzales, Tex.

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