Recipe: Perfect Red velvet cake

Red velvet cake. 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.

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. You can have Red velvet cake using 20 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Red velvet cake

1. You need of Cake.
2. Prepare of sugar.
3. You need of eggs.
4. Prepare of flour.
5. It's of vegetable oil.
6. You need of buttermilk.
7. You need of vanilla.
8. You need of baking soda.
9. It's of vinegar.
10. It's of red food coloring.
11. Prepare of cocoa.
12. Prepare of butter.
13. It's of Frosting.
14. It's of powdered sugar.
15. It's of cream cheese.
16. You need of butter.
17. It's of vanilla.
18. Prepare of chopped pecans.
19. You need of Decoration.
20. It's of chocolate bar.

In a large bowl, sift together the flour, sugar, baking soda, salt, and cocoa powder. This is the recipe to make red velvet cake, i have to say after so many years of baking this is a r star rating. Red Velvet Cake Recipes Don't wait to indulge in a slice of red velvet cake, a homey classic treat that calls to mind Mom's best baking. Try one of these, our most popular red velvet cake recipes.

Red velvet cake step by step

1. Mix eggs sugar oil and vinegar until creamy.
2. Add flour and baking soda together while beating mixture.
3. Add cocoa and butter.
4. Add buttermilk vanilla and coloring while stirring.
5. Bake 3 layers at 350°F.
6. For icing: Melt cream cheese and butter slowly at low temperature.
7. Add sugar, pecans, and vanilla.
8. Mix and spread between cake layers finishing by covering all layers.
9. For Decoration: Use a cheese grater and shred the chocolate bar on top of the cake.

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. A moist, classic Red Velvet Cake!! Made from scratch, and surprisingly easy when a few simple steps are followed - watch how to make it in the recipe video.