Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, red velvet cake. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Red velvet cake is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Red velvet cake is something that I have 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 begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook red velvet cake using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Red velvet cake:
- Prepare 21/2 cups flour
- Prepare 1/4 cup cocoa (4 tbsp)
- Take 11/2 cup sugar
- Prepare 1/2 cup butter
- Take 1/4 cup veg oil
- Make ready 1 1/2 cup buttermilk
- Get 1 tsp baking soda
- Get 2 tsp baking powder
- Take 3 large eggs
- Make ready 2 tsp vanilla
- Make ready 2 tsp red food colouring
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:
- Sift your flour,cocoa,baking powder and soda into a bowl and set aside
- Add in your colour into your buttermilk and mix together
- In another bowl cream sugar,vegetable oil and buttter and beat until fluffy
- Add in your eggs and beat
- Alternatively add in your dry and wet ingredients in 3 addition and beat until well combined
- Add vanilla and mix
- Pour batter into a 10 inch pan and bake until a toothpick inserted comes out clean
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. 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.
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