Red Velvet Cake
Red Velvet Cake

Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, red velvet cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Red Velvet Cake is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. 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 get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have red velvet cake using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Red Velvet Cake:
  1. Take 2 cups all-purpose flour
  2. Prepare 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  3. Make ready 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  4. Make ready 1/2 teaspoon salt
  5. Take 1 stick (4 ounces) salted butter at room temperature
  6. Make ready 2 cups sugar
  7. Make ready 3 large eggs
  8. Get 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  9. Prepare 1 cup sour cream
  10. Prepare 1/2 cup whole milk
  11. Make ready 1 1/2 tablespoons red food coloring

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. However I am willing to try it again just to make sure it was not my own fault.

Instructions to make Red Velvet Cake:
  1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease a 1+13-inch metal pan. Line the bottom with a parchment paper, Chris the paper, and flour the pan.
  2. In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt.
  3. In a large bowl, with an electric mixer, beat the butter until creamy. Add the sugar and beat until light and fluffy, 3 to 5 minutes.
  4. In a small bowl, whisk together the eggs and vanilla. In another small bowl, whisk together the sour cream and milk. Pour the egg mixture into the butter-sugar mixture and beat on medium speed for two minutes.
  5. On low speed, alternate adding the flour mixture and the sour cream mixture to the butter-egg mixture, beginning and ending with the flour adding the food coloring with the addition of liquid.
  6. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and spread evenly. Tap the pan on the worksurface to get rid of any air bubbles.
  7. Bake till a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean, 25 to 28 minutes.
  8. Cool in the pan on a wire rack for 15 minutes. If necessary, loosen

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. From the color to the crumb, this homemade red velvet cake is a dessert classic.

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