Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, red velvet cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Red velvet cake is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Red velvet cake is something that I’ve loved my entire 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 get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook red velvet cake using 13 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Red velvet cake:
- Get For cake base
- Take 2 cups maida
- Prepare 2 teaspoon cocoa powder
- Make ready 1 cup powdered sugar
- Make ready 1/2 cup ghee or unsalted butter
- Make ready 1 cup milk
- Take 1 teaspoon baking powder
- Take 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- Make ready 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
- Prepare 1/2 teaspoon vinegar
- Get 1/4 teaspoon salt
- Get Cherries
- Get Whipped cream
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. The combo of vinegar and buttermilk makes a red velvet cake extra tender, light, and fluffy. The striking red color makes it unforgettable.
Steps to make Red velvet cake:
- Seive maida, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt in a bowl.
- Blend powdered sugar, ghee, milk in a bowl with the help of hand blender
- Pour sugar mixture into maida mixture. Mix it in one direction. Add vanilla essence and vinegar and mix it in the cake batter.
- Pour the cake batter in the cake tin. Bake it in preheated oven at 160 degrees for 15 minutes.
- Take out the mould out from oven. Let it cool completely and then demould it. Divide it into 2 equal portion with the help of big knife or thread and spread little sugar syrup on both parts.
- Do the icing by using whipped cream. Refridgerate it. Serve it cool.
The combo of vinegar and buttermilk makes a red velvet cake extra tender, light, and fluffy. The striking red color makes it unforgettable. If you have leftover cake scraps you can make these Red. 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.
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