Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, red velvet cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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Red Velvet Cake is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is 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 wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have red velvet cake using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Red Velvet Cake:
- Make ready 1/2 cup butter.(2 tbsp for greasing)
- Make ready 3 tbsp cocoa powder
- Get 1 1/2 cups sugar
- Prepare 2 eggs
- Take 2 tsp vanilla essence
- Make ready 2 tbsp food colouring
- Prepare 1 tsp salt
- Make ready 1 tsp baking soda
- Take 2 1/2 cups flour. Sifted
- Make ready 1 cup whole milk
Make a paste of cocoa and red food coloring; add to creamed mixture. 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.
Steps to make Red Velvet Cake:
- Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Greese the pans.
- Cream butter and sugar together. Add eggs one at a time and beat vigorously until each is incorporated. Mix in vanilla.
- In a separate bowl, make a paste of the remaining 2 tbsp of cocoa and the food colouring. Blend into the butter.
- Sift together the remaining dry ingredients. Alternating 2 batches each. Add dry ingredients and whole milk to rhe butter mixture. In the last of milk, mix in the vinegar before adding to the butter.mix until well blended
- Divide the butter among 3 pans and bake for about 20 to 25 minutes
- Cool in a cooling rack completly.
- To assemble, remove 1 cake from its pan and place it flat side down on a serving platter. Drop about 1 cup of icing onto the cake and using a flat spatula, spread evenly over the top of first layer. Use the remaining frosting to cover the top and sides of the cake.
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. 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.
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