Red Velvet Cake
Red Velvet Cake

Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how 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 tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Red Velvet Cake is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They are nice 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 recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have red velvet cake using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Red Velvet Cake:
  1. Make ready 1/2 cup butter.(2 tbsp for greasing)
  2. Prepare 3 tbsp cocoa powder
  3. Make ready 1 1/2 cups sugar
  4. Make ready 2 eggs
  5. Take 2 tsp vanilla essence
  6. Take 2 tbsp food colouring
  7. Get 1 tsp salt
  8. Prepare 1 tsp baking soda
  9. Take 2 1/2 cups flour. Sifted
  10. Make ready 1 cup whole milk

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. Beat in food coloring, vinegar and vanilla. 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.

Steps to make Red Velvet Cake:
  1. Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Greese the pans.
  2. Cream butter and sugar together. Add eggs one at a time and beat vigorously until each is incorporated. Mix in vanilla.
  3. In a separate bowl, make a paste of the remaining 2 tbsp of cocoa and the food colouring. Blend into the butter.
  4. Sift together the remaining dry ingredients. Alternating 2 batches each. Add dry ingredients and whole milk to rhe butter mixture. In the last of milk, mix in the vinegar before adding to the butter.mix until well blended
  5. Divide the butter among 3 pans and bake for about 20 to 25 minutes
  6. Cool in a cooling rack completly.
  7. To assemble, remove 1 cake from its pan and place it flat side down on a serving platter. Drop about 1 cup of icing onto the cake and using a flat spatula, spread evenly over the top of first layer. Use the remaining frosting to cover the top and sides of the cake.

Beat in food coloring, vinegar and vanilla. 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. It was developed by the Adams Extract company in Gonzales, Tex. The combo of vinegar and buttermilk makes a red velvet cake extra tender, light, and fluffy.

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