Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, red velvet cake. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Red Velvet Cake is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Red Velvet Cake is something which I have loved my whole 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 cook red velvet cake using 16 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Red Velvet Cake:
- Get Cake Batter
- Get 2 2/3 cups cake flour
- Take 2 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder
- Prepare 1 tsp baking soda
- Get 1 tsp salt
- Get 1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
- Make ready 1 1/2 cup sugar
- Make ready 2 eggs
- Take 1 cup vegetable oil
- Make ready 1 tsp white vinegar
- Get 2 tsp vanilla extract
- Make ready 1 cup buttermilk, room temperature
- Prepare 1-2 oz red food coloring gel
- Make ready Cream Cheese Frosting
- Make ready 150 gm cream cheese, room temperature
- Take 300 gm non dairy whipping cream, chilled
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.
Steps to make Red Velvet Cake:
- Preheat oven to 350F (180C). Grease with butter and dust with flour two 8 inch (23 cm) round cake pans.
- In a large bowl sift together the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt and whisk to combine.
- In another bowl mix butter with sugar until combined.
- Incorporate eggs one at a time.
- Mix in oil,vinegar,vanilla extract and buttermilk. Incorporate flour mixture until well combined.
- Gradually add red food coloring until the desired color is reached. - Pour the batter evenly into the prepared pans. - Bake for about 30 minutes until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. - Let pans cool on a cooling rack for 10 minutes. - Remove the cakes from the pan and let them cool completely.
- Prepare the frosting. Beat the cream cheese with powdered sugar(according to taste) until smooth. - In another bowl whip the cream until stiff peaks form.Gradually fold into the cream cheese mixture until well combined.
- Assemble the cake. Cut the tops of the cakes to create flat surfaces. Make crumbs out of the left pieces of cake and set aside.
- Place 1 cake layer on your serving plate. Spread evenly with a bit less than half of frosting. Add the second layer of cake. Gradually spread the remaining frosting on top and sides of the cake. - Decorate the cake with remained cake crumbs if desired. - The cake is ready to serve. - The leftover frosted cake can be covered and refrigerated for up to a week. Serve at room temperature
Overall the cake was nothing special. However I am willing to try it again just to make sure it was not my own fault. In a large bowl using a hand mixer (or in the bowl of a stand mixer), beat butter and sugar. 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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