Red Velvet cake
Red Velvet cake

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, red velvet cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look 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 favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Red Velvet cake is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook red velvet cake using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Red Velvet cake:
  1. Take 1/2 cup butter or ½ cup margarine
  2. Prepare 1 1/2 cup sugar
  3. Take 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
  4. Prepare 3 large eggs
  5. Make ready Red food colour
  6. Make ready 2 1/2 cup all purpose flour
  7. Prepare 2 tablespoons cocoa
  8. Prepare 1 teaspoon baking soda
  9. Make ready 1/2 teaspoon salt
  10. Take 1 cup buttermilk
  11. Prepare Powdered sugar
  12. Get 1 cup chopped pecans (optional)

Add the flour to the batter, alternating with the buttermilk mixture, mixing just until incorporated. Mix soda and vinegar and gently fold into cake batter. The combo of vinegar and buttermilk makes a red velvet cake extra tender, light, and fluffy. The striking red color makes it unforgettable.

Steps to make Red Velvet cake:
  1. Beat butter at medium speed with a mixer until creamy gradually add sugar, vinegar and vanilla beat well.
  2. Add eggs 1at a time, beating until blended after each addition
  3. Add food colour, beating until combined
  4. Combine flour and the next 3 ingredients; add the butter mixture alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
  5. Beat at low speed until blended after each addition
  6. Pour into greased and floured cake pan
  7. Bake at 350°c for 20-22 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center out clean.
  8. Cool in pans on wire racks for 5 minutes; remove from pans and cool on wire racks.

The combo of vinegar and buttermilk makes a red velvet cake extra tender, light, and fluffy. The striking red color makes it unforgettable. If you have leftover cake scraps you can make these Red. 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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