Hey everyone, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, red velvet cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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.
Red Velvet Cake is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look wonderful. Red Velvet Cake is something which I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook red velvet cake using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Red Velvet Cake:
- Get 2 1/2 cups flour
- Prepare 1 1/2 cups sugar
- Prepare 1 cup vegetable oil
- Prepare 2 eggs
- Take 1 cup yoghurt
- Take 1 tablespoon vinegar
- Get 1 tsp cocoa powder
- Take 1 tsp red colour (powder)
- Take 1 tsp flavour
- Get 1 tsp baking soda
- Get 1 tsp baking powder
- Get 1 tsp salt
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:
- Prepare two 9 inches pan by rubbing it with butter and dusting with flour (you can use baking spray if you have one). Preheat your oven.
- Sieve all dry ingredients(flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, cocoa powder) together except the colour
- Mix wet ingredients together (oil, sugar, eggs, vinegar, yoghurt, flavor)
- Add the colour and mix wet and dry ingredients together.
- Pour into your floured tin and bake for 25 minutes or till a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean.
- Allow to cool and decorate or serve.
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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