Red Velvet Cake
Red Velvet Cake

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, red velvet cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Red Velvet Cake is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Red Velvet Cake is something that I have loved my entire life.

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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook red velvet cake using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Red Velvet Cake:
  1. Make ready 1.1 /2cups of all purpose flour
  2. Get 1 tbsp cocoa
  3. Get 1 tbsp butter
  4. Prepare 3 eggs
  5. Take 1 tbsp red food colour
  6. Make ready 1/2 cup granulated sugar
  7. Take 1 tbsp baking soda
  8. Get 1 cup milk
  9. Prepare 1 tsp vanilla essence
  10. Take 1 tbsp Vinegar

This Red Velvet cake was definitely not what I expected. It could be that I have no experience with Red Velvet cake but with this recipe the cake was much to heavy. The Icing was bland and honestly tasted like flour. Overall the cake was nothing special.

Instructions to make Red Velvet Cake:
  1. Pre-heat your oven to 180 degrees
  2. Assume all ingredients are weighed,sift the dry ingredients together (flour,cocoa,sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt)
  3. Mix the milk with vinegar and keep aside for 5 minutes. The milk will curdle to form buttermilk. Now add colour to this mix.
  4. Separately whisk the wet ingredients – prepared buttermilk, melted butter and vanilla essence.
  5. Add it to the dry ingredients and mix well with a spatula or with electric beater till there are no lumps.
  6. Grease the baking tin. Then pour in the butter and bake at 180 degrees for 50 minutes.
  7. When ready insert a skewer inside if it come out clean then it is ready
  8. Remove from the oven and serve.

The Icing was bland and honestly tasted like flour. Overall the cake was nothing special. However I am willing to try it again just to make sure it was not my own fault. 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.

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