Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, red velvet cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look 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 popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Red Velvet Cake is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook 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
- Take 1 1/2 cups oil
- Get 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- Prepare 1 teaspoon baking soda
- Make ready 1 tablespoon white vinegar
- Get 2 cups sugar
- Make ready 2 tablespoons cocoa
- Prepare 1 oz red food coloring
- Get half teaspoon of salt
- Prepare 2 eggs
- Get 1 cup buttermilk
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:
- 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)
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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