Red Velvet cake
Red Velvet cake

Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, red velvet cake. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Red Velvet cake is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Red Velvet cake is something that I’ve loved my whole 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 prepare a few components. You can cook red velvet cake using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Red Velvet cake:
  1. Take 1/2 cup butter or ½ cup margarine
  2. Get 1 1/2 cup sugar
  3. Make ready 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
  4. Make ready 3 large eggs
  5. Take Red food colour
  6. Get 2 1/2 cup all purpose flour
  7. Prepare 2 tablespoons cocoa
  8. Take 1 teaspoon baking soda
  9. Make ready 1/2 teaspoon salt
  10. Make ready 1 cup buttermilk
  11. Take Powdered sugar
  12. Prepare 1 cup chopped pecans (optional)

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. This is similar to the original recipe that began the red velvet craze.

Instructions to make Red Velvet cake:
  1. Beat butter at medium speed with a mixer until creamy gradually add sugar, vinegar and vanilla beat well.
  2. Add eggs 1at a time, beating until blended after each addition
  3. Add food colour, beating until combined
  4. Combine flour and the next 3 ingredients; add the butter mixture alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
  5. Beat at low speed until blended after each addition
  6. Pour into greased and floured cake pan
  7. Bake at 350°c for 20-22 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center out clean.
  8. Cool in pans on wire racks for 5 minutes; remove from pans and cool on wire racks.

Mix soda and vinegar and gently fold into cake batter. This is similar to the original recipe that began the red velvet craze. 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. The striking red color makes it unforgettable.

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