Red velvet cake
Red velvet cake

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

Browse For Yummy & Hassle-Free Cake & Cupcake Recipes From Kraft®. 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.

Red velvet cake is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Red velvet cake is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook red velvet cake using 19 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Red velvet cake:
  1. Get Dry ingredients:
  2. Take plain cake flour
  3. Make ready cocoa powder unsweetened
  4. Take baking soda
  5. Get salt
  6. Take Wet ingredients:
  7. Make ready unsalted butter
  8. Make ready sugar
  9. Make ready eggs
  10. Make ready vegetable oil
  11. Get vinegar
  12. Make ready vanilla extract
  13. Take butter milk
  14. Prepare red food colouring liquid
  15. Get Frosting:
  16. Make ready cream cheese
  17. Take butter at room temperature
  18. Make ready vanilla extract
  19. Make ready icing sugar

Add the flour to the batter, alternating with … Directions. The combo of vinegar and buttermilk makes a red velvet cake extra tender, light, and fluffy. The striking red color makes it unforgettable. From the color … Combine the flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk, beating well after each addition.

Steps to make Red velvet cake:
  1. Instructions - 1. Preheat oven to 180C/350F (all oven types). Butter two round cake pans (sides and base) and dust with cocoa powder. - 2. Shift the Dry Ingredients and whisk to combine in a bowl. - 3. Place butter and sugar in a bowl and beat with electric beater or in stand mixer until smooth and well combined - 4. Add eggs, one at a time, beating in between to combine. Keep beating until it's smooth.
    1. Add vegetable oil, vinegar, vanilla, buttermilk and red food colouring. Beat until combined and smooth. - 6. Add Dry Ingredients. Beat until just combined - some small lumps is ok, that's better than over mixing.
    1. Divide batter between cake pans. Bake for 25 - 30 minutes on the same shelf, or until a toothpick inserted into the centre comes out clean. - 8. Rest for 10 minutes in the pan then turn out onto a cooling rack and allow to cool.
  4. Frosting - 1. Beat together cream cheese, butter and vanilla for 3 minutes (this makes it really smooth and changes from yellow to almost white). Add icing sugar and beat for 2 minutes or until frosting is light and fluffy to your taste. If your frosting seems too runny (depends on quality of cream cheese/ if the cream cheese was too soft), just add more icing sugar.
  5. Frost Cake - 1. Cut the top off the cake using a knife (to make the layers meat). - 2. Spread one cake with 1 1/2 cups of frosting. Top with the other cake. Spread top and sides with remaining frosting.

The striking red color makes it unforgettable. From the color … Combine the flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk, beating well after each addition. Pour into three greased and floured … Red velvet cake has an acidic taste that comes from the use of buttermilk and vinegar as well as the cream cheese in the frosting. The acidity is balanced out by the … Red Velvet Cake is not just a chocolate cake with red food colouring added. This cake is softer than most, "velvet-like", and the chocolate taste is actually quite mild.

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