Red Velvet Cake
Red Velvet Cake

Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, red velvet cake. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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Red Velvet Cake is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Red Velvet Cake is something which I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have red velvet cake using 11 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Red Velvet Cake:
  1. Prepare sugar
  2. Take eggs
  3. Prepare vanilla extract
  4. Make ready Crisco
  5. Make ready vinegar
  6. Get Cocoa
  7. Get All purpose flour
  8. Make ready baking powder
  9. Get salt
  10. Prepare sour cream
  11. Get Red food color

This Red Velvet cake was definitely not what I expected. It could be that I have no experience with Red Velvet cake but with this recipe the cake was much to heavy. The Icing was bland and honestly tasted like flour. Overall the cake was nothing special.

Steps to make Red Velvet Cake:
  1. Preheat oven to 350°
  2. Cream together Crisco, eggs, vanilla, sugar
  3. Blend in vinegar, cocoa & red food color
  4. Mix together flour, salt & baking powder
  5. Add one cup of flour mixture & mix 1 minute
  6. Next add cup of sour cream, mix one minute
  7. Add last cup of flour & mix until everything is blended - scrape down sides of bowl
  8. Grease & flour a bundt pan. Add mixture & bake for 1 hour to 1 hour 10 minutes depending on oven
  9. Remove from oven & let cool for 10 minutes
  10. Invert onto cake plate. Once cool, drizzle with cream cheese frosting
  11. Frosting: Mix together 1 stick of butter, 1 block of cream cheese, 1 box of powdered sugar & 2 tsp of vanilla extract. Pecans optional.

The Icing was bland and honestly tasted like flour. Overall the cake was nothing special. However I am willing to try it again just to make sure it was not my own fault. In a large bowl using a hand mixer (or in the bowl of a stand mixer), beat butter and sugar. This is similar to the original recipe that began the red velvet craze.

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