Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, red velvet cake. It is 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 well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Red velvet cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook red velvet cake using 12 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Red velvet cake:
- Get 2 cup all purpose flour
- Get 1 tbsp baking soda
- Take 1/2 tbsp baking powder
- Make ready 2 tbsp vanilla extract
- Take 1/2 cup milk
- Prepare 1 tbsp white vinegar
- Get 4 tbsp oil
- Take 1/2 tbsp red gel food colour
- Take 1 Cream Cheese Frosting: cream cheese, softened
- Take 1/2 cup unsalted butter, soften
- Make ready 1 tbsp vanilla extract
- Take 3 cups confectioners’ sugar,
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. Beat in food coloring, vinegar and vanilla. The combo of vinegar and buttermilk makes a red velvet cake extra tender, light, and fluffy.
Instructions to make Red velvet cake:
- Now add dry ingredients in it.whisk with electric beater or spatula.Mix it gently till dry ingredients incorporated well. Add water if required.Add vanilla Extract and red gel colour.mix well,take a cake tin and grease it. Dust with all purpose flour.add batter.tapped the tin so batter settles down evenly with no gaps in between. Place the cake into the preheated oven. Bake the cake at 180 degree Celsius for 40 min.check the cake in middle to see if the baked with wooden toothpick.
- Once done,let the cake rest in the tin.Allow the cake to cool completely. - To assemble the cake, remove cake from pan and place flat side down on a serving platter or cake stand. Spread evenly about 1 cup of icing onto cake and, using a flat spatula. Keep the second layer like this. Use remaining frosting to cover top and sides of the cake, if desired.
- For the Frosting: - Beat in a large bowl with an electric mixer the softened cream cheese and butter on medium speed for 3 - 4 minutes, until smooth and creamy.Stir in vanilla, then stir in confectioners ‘sugar. Add more confectioners ‘sugar as needed until frosting is a thick spreadable consistency.
Beat in food coloring, vinegar and vanilla. 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.
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