Red Velvet Cake
Red Velvet Cake

Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, red velvet cake. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Red Velvet Cake is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Red Velvet Cake is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

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.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook red velvet cake using 11 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Red Velvet Cake:
  1. Take 2 1/4 cup sifted cake flour (not self rising)
  2. Take 1/4 cup cocoa powder
  3. Get 1/2 tsp salt
  4. Make ready 8 tbsp (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature
  5. Get 1 1/2 cup sugar
  6. Make ready 2 large eggs, at room temperature
  7. Make ready 2 tbsp liquid red food coloring
  8. Get 1 tsp vanilla extract
  9. Get 1 cup buttermilk, at room temperature
  10. Take 2 tsp distilled white vinegar
  11. Make ready 1 tsp baking soda

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.

Steps to make Red Velvet Cake:
  1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease two 9"x2" round cake pans.
  2. Sift flour, cocoa, and salt into a bowl.
  3. In stand mixer with paddle attachment, beat butter at low speed until creamy
  4. Add sugar; blend on medium speed, scraping bowl occasionally, untill fluffy, about 3 mins.
  5. Add eggs 1 at a time, mixing well after each. Scrape bowl; add food coloring and vanilla.
  6. On low speed, beat in flour mixture in thirds, alternating with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
  7. In small bowl, stir together vinegar and baking soda.
  8. Stir into batter
  9. Divide batter between prepared pans; spread evenly.
  10. Bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. 25 to 30 mins.

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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