Red velvet cake
Red velvet cake

Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, red velvet cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a 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 well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Red velvet cake is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have red velvet cake using 19 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Red velvet cake:
  1. Get Dry ingredients:
  2. Get plain cake flour
  3. Prepare cocoa powder unsweetened
  4. Prepare baking soda
  5. Make ready salt
  6. Get Wet ingredients:
  7. Get unsalted butter
  8. Prepare sugar
  9. Prepare eggs
  10. Get vegetable oil
  11. Prepare vinegar
  12. Make ready vanilla extract
  13. Make ready butter milk
  14. Take red food colouring liquid
  15. Make ready Frosting:
  16. Make ready cream cheese
  17. Get butter at room temperature
  18. Get vanilla extract
  19. Get icing sugar

Mix soda and vinegar and gently fold into cake batter. 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.

Steps to make Red velvet cake:
  1. Instructions - 1. Preheat oven to 180C/350F (all oven types). Butter two round cake pans (sides and base) and dust with cocoa powder. - 2. Shift the Dry Ingredients and whisk to combine in a bowl. - 3. Place butter and sugar in a bowl and beat with electric beater or in stand mixer until smooth and well combined - 4. Add eggs, one at a time, beating in between to combine. Keep beating until it's smooth.
    1. Add vegetable oil, vinegar, vanilla, buttermilk and red food colouring. Beat until combined and smooth. - 6. Add Dry Ingredients. Beat until just combined - some small lumps is ok, that's better than over mixing.
    1. Divide batter between cake pans. Bake for 25 - 30 minutes on the same shelf, or until a toothpick inserted into the centre comes out clean. - 8. Rest for 10 minutes in the pan then turn out onto a cooling rack and allow to cool.
  4. Frosting - 1. Beat together cream cheese, butter and vanilla for 3 minutes (this makes it really smooth and changes from yellow to almost white). Add icing sugar and beat for 2 minutes or until frosting is light and fluffy to your taste. If your frosting seems too runny (depends on quality of cream cheese/ if the cream cheese was too soft), just add more icing sugar.
  5. Frost Cake - 1. Cut the top off the cake using a knife (to make the layers meat). - 2. Spread one cake with 1 1/2 cups of frosting. Top with the other cake. Spread top and sides with remaining frosting.

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. Beat in food coloring, vinegar and vanilla. This is similar to the original recipe that began the red velvet craze. It was developed by the Adams Extract company in Gonzales, Tex.

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