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 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Red Velvet Cake
- Prepare 250 ml of buttermilk.
- Prepare 250 grams of flour, shifted.
- You need 2 piece of eggs.
- You need 1 tsp of salt.
- You need 1/2 tsp of baking powder.
- Prepare 20 ml of soda.
- Prepare 10 ml of red food coloring.
- Prepare 10 grams of cocoa.
- Prepare 338 grams of sugar.
- It's 1 tsp of vanilla.
- You need 113 grams of unsalted butter.
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
- Preheat the oven 350°C.
- In a large size bowl, mix the unsalted butter and salt then beat with a mixer at medium speed until the dough is evenly mixed..
- In a medium bowl, add sifted flour and baking powder. Stir well..
- In a small size bowl, add cocoa and coloring. Beat the batter with a whisk until well blended into one. In large size bowl inputs eggs one at a time, stirring slowly..
- Then enter your flour dough, dough cocoa, milk, and vanilla little by little and make sure each is incorporated dough has been mixed into the dough until the last entry. Put dough evenly mixed on the prepared baking sheet..
- Put in the oven, allow up to 30 minutes. Refrigerate cake that is cooked about 10 minutes. Remove the pan and decorate with butter cream or cream cheese or butter with dried fruit topping..
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.