Red Velvet Cake
Red Velvet Cake

Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, red velvet cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Red Velvet Cake is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Red Velvet Cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

Browse For Yummy & Hassle-Free Cake & Cupcake Recipes From Kraft®. 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.

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

The ingredients needed to make Red Velvet Cake:
  1. Take 2 cups all-purpose flour
  2. Get 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  3. Get 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  4. Make ready 1/2 teaspoon salt
  5. Get 1 stick (4 ounces) salted butter at room temperature
  6. Make ready 2 cups sugar
  7. Get 3 large eggs
  8. Prepare 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  9. Make ready 1 cup sour cream
  10. Take 1/2 cup whole milk
  11. Prepare 1 1/2 tablespoons red food coloring

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°F. Grease a 1+13-inch metal pan. Line the bottom with a parchment paper, Chris the paper, and flour the pan.
  2. In a medium bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt.
  3. In a large bowl, with an electric mixer, beat the butter until creamy. Add the sugar and beat until light and fluffy, 3 to 5 minutes.
  4. In a small bowl, whisk together the eggs and vanilla. In another small bowl, whisk together the sour cream and milk. Pour the egg mixture into the butter-sugar mixture and beat on medium speed for two minutes.
  5. On low speed, alternate adding the flour mixture and the sour cream mixture to the butter-egg mixture, beginning and ending with the flour adding the food coloring with the addition of liquid.
  6. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and spread evenly. Tap the pan on the worksurface to get rid of any air bubbles.
  7. Bake till a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out clean, 25 to 28 minutes.
  8. Cool in the pan on a wire rack for 15 minutes. If necessary, loosen

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. 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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