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 cook Red velvet cake using 20 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Red velvet cake

1. You need 2 cups of all purpose flour.
2. You need 1 tsp of salt.
3. Prepare 1 tsp of baking powder.
4. It's of I tsp cocoa powder.
5. Prepare 3/4 of butter or oil.
6. Prepare 1 1/2 cup of sugar.
7. It's 1 ounce of red food coloring.
8. Prepare 2 of eggs.
9. You need of I cup buttermilk.
10. It's 1 tsp of baking soda.
11. Prepare 1 tsp of vinegar.
12. It's 1 tsp of vanilla.
13. You need of Frosting.
14. Prepare 1 (8 oz) of bar cream cheese softened.
15. You need of (1/2 cup) stick of butter.
16. It's 2 tsp of vanilla.
17. It's 3 cups of powdered sugar.
18. You need of Topping for cake.
19. Prepare 3/4 cup of milk.
20. It's 1/2 cup of sugar.

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 instructions

1. Put flour, baking powder, salt, and cocoa powder in small bowl and stir. In large bowl cream butter and sugar with mixer, and eggs one at a time mixing well after each. Add red food coloring to butter mixture and mix well. Place buttermilk and soda in small bowl and mix well with with spoon. Alternately add buttermilk mixture, and flour mixture to large bowl and beat until combined. Mix in vanilla and vinegar. Bake at 350° for 30 minutes or until done..
2. For frosting beat cream cheese and butter until creamy. Add vanilla and powder sugar, beat until light and fluffy with mixer..
3. Before adding frosting bring sugar and milk to a boil to dissolve sugar, then poke holes in cake adding sugar and milk mixture evenly on both. Let cool, then frost cake with frosting..

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.