Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, red velvet cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. 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 on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Red Velvet Cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have red velvet cake using 11 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Red Velvet Cake:
- Take 3 cup sugar
- Prepare 5 eggs
- Prepare 2 tsp vanilla extract
- Prepare 1 1/2 cup Crisco
- Make ready 2 tsp vinegar
- Make ready 1/3 cup Cocoa
- Make ready 3 cup All purpose flour
- Prepare 1 tsp baking powder
- Make ready 1/4 tsp salt
- Get 1 cup sour cream
- Make ready 2 oz Red food color
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.
Instructions to make Red Velvet Cake:
- Preheat oven to 350°
- Cream together Crisco, eggs, vanilla, sugar
- Blend in vinegar, cocoa & red food color
- Mix together flour, salt & baking powder
- Add one cup of flour mixture & mix 1 minute
- Next add cup of sour cream, mix one minute
- Add last cup of flour & mix until everything is blended - scrape down sides of bowl
- Grease & flour a bundt pan. Add mixture & bake for 1 hour to 1 hour 10 minutes depending on oven
- Remove from oven & let cool for 10 minutes
- Invert onto cake plate. Once cool, drizzle with cream cheese frosting
- Frosting: Mix together 1 stick of butter, 1 block of cream cheese, 1 box of powdered sugar & 2 tsp of vanilla extract. Pecans optional.
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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