Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, red velvet cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really 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 popular of current trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Red Velvet Cake is something which I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook red velvet cake using 19 ingredients and 23 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Red Velvet Cake:
- Prepare 21/3 cups All Purpose Flour
- Prepare 1/3 cup corn Flour
- Prepare 1 tsp Baking Soda
- Take 1.5 cups Sugar
- Make ready 110 g soft unsalted Butter
- Take 1 cup Buttermilk at room temperature
- Prepare 3/4 cup canola/veg Oil
- Make ready 1 tsp Vinegar
- Take 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- Get 2 Eggs
- Make ready 2.5 tbsp cocoa powder
- Take 1 tsp Salt
- Prepare 2.5 tbsp red food colour
- Make ready For frosting
- Make ready 450 g Cream cheese room temperature
- Make ready 110 g soft Butter
- Take 2 cups icing Sugar (adjust)
- Prepare 2 tbsp Cream
- Get 1 tsp Vanilla extract
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. 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.
Steps to make Red Velvet Cake:
- Mix flours and sieve 4-5 times
- Sieve cocoa, baking soda and salt.
- Mix all the dry ingredients well and keep it aside
- Prepare baking pan.use 2 small round pans or big round pan. Preheat oven to 180
- In a bowl add butter and sugar
- Blend until creamy for 4-5 minutes
- Add eggs, 1 at a time and beat until pale and frothy
- Add buttermilk and blend well
- Add oil and blend
- Add vinegar and vanilla extract. blend well
- Slowly incorporate dry ingredients and blend
- Add red food colouring and fold in well
- Pour the batter to prepared cake pan and tap gently
- Bake for 30-40 minutes until done
- Allow cake to cool for 15 minutes, demould and allow to cool completely
- In case you have used big cake pan then slice them in 2 equal halves, reserve cake crumbs if any
- Flatten the top of the cake, reserve the cake crumbs
- Blend cream cheese butter until smooth. add icing sugar, vanilla extract with cream to form peaks
- Place the first cake/sliced cake on top of decorating plate.Apply frosting on top of first cake
- Now place second cake/second half on top and frost again
- Once one layer is completed, chill for 15 minutes
- Now do final frosting and decorate as desired
- Apply cake crumbs on top and sides, slice and serve
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. The combo of vinegar and buttermilk makes a red velvet cake extra tender, light, and fluffy.
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