Red Velvet Cake
Red Velvet Cake

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Red Velvet Cake is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Red Velvet Cake is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

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 must prepare a few components. You can cook red velvet cake using 11 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Red Velvet Cake:
  1. Take 2 1/4 cup sifted cake flour (not self rising)
  2. Get 1/4 cup cocoa powder
  3. Get 1/2 tsp salt
  4. Get 8 tbsp (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature
  5. Make ready 1 1/2 cup sugar
  6. Prepare 2 large eggs, at room temperature
  7. Take 2 tbsp liquid red food coloring
  8. Make ready 1 tsp vanilla extract
  9. Get 1 cup buttermilk, at room temperature
  10. Make ready 2 tsp distilled white vinegar
  11. Prepare 1 tsp baking soda

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 "red" makes sense, but what about the "velvet" in this cake's iconic name? 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.

Instructions to make Red Velvet Cake:
  1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease two 9"x2" round cake pans.
  2. Sift flour, cocoa, and salt into a bowl.
  3. In stand mixer with paddle attachment, beat butter at low speed until creamy
  4. Add sugar; blend on medium speed, scraping bowl occasionally, untill fluffy, about 3 mins.
  5. Add eggs 1 at a time, mixing well after each. Scrape bowl; add food coloring and vanilla.
  6. On low speed, beat in flour mixture in thirds, alternating with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
  7. In small bowl, stir together vinegar and baking soda.
  8. Stir into batter
  9. Divide batter between prepared pans; spread evenly.
  10. Bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. 25 to 30 mins.

The "red" makes sense, but what about the "velvet" in this cake's iconic name? 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.

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