Recipe: Delicious Red Velvet cake

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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.

Red Velvet cake 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 cook Red Velvet cake using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Red Velvet cake

  1. It's of butter or ½ cup margarine.
  2. Prepare of sugar.
  3. Prepare of vanilla extract.
  4. It's of large eggs.
  5. You need of Red food colour.
  6. You need of all purpose flour.
  7. Prepare of cocoa.
  8. It's of baking soda.
  9. Prepare of salt.
  10. It's of buttermilk.
  11. Prepare of Powdered sugar.
  12. You need of chopped pecans (optional).

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. 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 "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.