Red velvet cake
Red velvet cake

Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, red velvet cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Red velvet cake is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Red velvet cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

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 particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook red velvet cake using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Red velvet cake:
  1. Prepare 1 cup (118 g) Flour
  2. Get 3/4 cup (150 g) sugar
  3. Prepare 1 Tbsp (2g)cocoa powder
  4. Take 2/3 cup (147 ml) vegetable oil
  5. Prepare 1/2 cup (125 ml) buttermilk
  6. Take 1/2 tsp (2 ml) vanilla essence
  7. Take 1/2 tsp (2 ml) white vinegar
  8. Get 1 Tbsp (15 ml) red food colouring
  9. Prepare 1 large egg
  10. Get 1/2 tsp (3 g) baking soda

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.

Steps to make Red velvet cake:
  1. Sieve flour, baking soda, cocoa powder and keep aside.
  2. In another bowl, add egg, oil, sugar and vanilla. Mix until well combined and emulsified.
  3. Add in red food colour and vinegar and mix.
  4. Alternate flour & buttermilk. Mix in half of the flour to the mixture. And then the buttermilk, then rest of the flour. Scraping sides of bowl.
  5. Pour into greased and floured baking pan bake for 20 to 30 minutes in 180°c oven. Or until toothpick inserted into it comes out clean.
  6. Remove cake from oven, allow to cool for 10 minutes in pan and remove to cool completely on rack.
  7. To make buttermilk. Add 1/2 tbsp of white vinegar or lemon to 1/2 cup and fill it up with milk. Mix and allow to sit for 5 minutes.

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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