Red Velvet cake
Red Velvet cake

Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, red velvet cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Red Velvet cake is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Red Velvet cake is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine 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 get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have red velvet cake using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Red Velvet cake:
  1. Take 1/2 cup butter or ½ cup margarine
  2. Get 1 1/2 cup sugar
  3. Take 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
  4. Get 3 large eggs
  5. Take Red food colour
  6. Take 2 1/2 cup all purpose flour
  7. Make ready 2 tablespoons cocoa
  8. Take 1 teaspoon baking soda
  9. Take 1/2 teaspoon salt
  10. Get 1 cup buttermilk
  11. Prepare Powdered sugar
  12. Take 1 cup chopped pecans (optional)

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.

Instructions to make Red Velvet cake:
  1. Beat butter at medium speed with a mixer until creamy gradually add sugar, vinegar and vanilla beat well.
  2. Add eggs 1at a time, beating until blended after each addition
  3. Add food colour, beating until combined
  4. Combine flour and the next 3 ingredients; add the butter mixture alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
  5. Beat at low speed until blended after each addition
  6. Pour into greased and floured cake pan
  7. Bake at 350°c for 20-22 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center out clean.
  8. Cool in pans on wire racks for 5 minutes; remove from pans and cool on wire racks.

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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