Red Velvet Cake
Red Velvet Cake

Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, red velvet cake. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Red Velvet Cake is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Red Velvet Cake is something which I have loved my entire life.

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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have red velvet cake using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Red Velvet Cake:
  1. Make ready 2 1/2 cups flour
  2. Make ready 1 1/2 cups oil
  3. Prepare 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
  4. Make ready 1 teaspoon baking soda
  5. Take 1 tablespoon white vinegar
  6. Prepare 2 cups sugar
  7. Take 2 tablespoons cocoa
  8. Prepare 1 oz red food coloring
  9. Make ready half teaspoon of salt
  10. Get 2 eggs
  11. Get 1 cup buttermilk

This Red Velvet cake was definitely not what I expected. 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.

Steps to make Red Velvet Cake:
  1. Preheat oven to 350 Cream eggs sugar oil and vanilla on high for 2 minutes
  2. Sift salt flour and cocoa in separate bowl
  3. Add food coloring to egg mixture and blend for one minute
  4. Alternate adding flour and buttermilk ending with flour to the egg mixture
  5. Combine vinegar and baking soda then FOLD into batter DON'T over mix
  6. Coat two 8 or 9 inch pans with oil and dust with flour
  7. Add batter to pans and bake for 25-30 min until tooth pick comes out clean or with crumbs let it cool all the way
  8. Ice with cream cheese icing and decorate with nuts (nuts are optional)

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. 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.

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