Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, red velvet cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. 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 favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Red velvet cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have red velvet cake using 19 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Red velvet cake:
- Make ready 1 cup sugar
- Make ready 1 2/3 cups oil
- Get 2 whole eggs
- Get 4 tablespoons red food coloring
- Make ready 3 tablespoons vanilla extract
- Get 2 cups all purpose flour
- Get 1/4 cup cornflour
- Make ready 5 tablespoons cocoa powder
- Get 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
- Get 1 cup buttermilk
- Prepare 2 teaspoons white vinegar
- Take 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- Make ready cream cheese frosting
- Make ready 680 g cream cheese
- Prepare 680 g Butter
- Make ready 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- Prepare 800 g (8 cups) icing sugar, sifted
- Make ready Special equipment:
- Get 3 (20 cm) (8-inch) round cake pans
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. 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.
Instructions to make Red velvet cake:
- Preheat the oven to 180°C (350 degrees F). Grease three round cake pans and line with parchment paper.
- Combine the sugar and oil and mix together. Add the eggs, red color and vanilla, and mix again.
- In a separate bowl combine the flour, cornstarch, cocoa powder and salt. Then add half of the dry mixture to the wet mixture, followed by half of the buttermilk. Then add in the remaining dry ingredients and the remaining buttermilk. In a separate small bowl mix together the vinegar and baking soda, then add to the batter and combine.
- Pour the batter into the prepared cake pans and bake until a toothpick inserted into the center of the pan comes out clean, 20 to 25 minutes. Cool slightly in the pan, then invert the cakes on to a wire rack to finish cooling. - For the frosting: Beat the cream cheese, butter and vanilla until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in the powder sugar. Cover and refrigerate until needed.
- You can always control how much sweet you want your frosting. Taste after every other addition of the icing sugar to obtain your perfect taste of sweetness. - To assemble, place one of the cakes on a cake plate or stand. Top the first layer of cake with a generous, even layer of frosting. Place in the freezer to firm the frosting, about 10 minutes.
- Once firm, place the next cake layer on top and cover with more frosting. Freeze again for 10 minutes.
- Place the third layer on top and cover the tops and sides with a thin "crumb" layer of frosting and freeze again for 10 minutes. - Cover the entire top and sides of the cake with a thick, even layer of frosting, covering the crumb coat.
- BUTTERMILK RECIPE - For 1 CUP - Ingredients - 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice - 1 Cup (8oz / 224g / 250ml) milk (full or semi fat)
- Method
- Measure the milk into a jug - Stir in lemon juice into the milk. Stir to combine. - Let sit for 30 minutes at room temperature until the milk begins to curdle and becomes acidic. - RED Velvet Cake requires pretty much of red food coloring to obtain the bright red color. However, please do bear in mind that coloring is bad for health. Personally, if i have to make my cake it would be plainish velvet as i would prefer to exclude the gel coloring.
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. Beat in food coloring, vinegar and vanilla. The combo of vinegar and buttermilk makes a red velvet cake extra tender, light, and fluffy. The striking red color makes it unforgettable.
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