Recipe: Perfect 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 have Red velvet cake using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Red velvet cake

  1. Prepare of sugar.
  2. You need of of butter.
  3. It's of eggs.
  4. You need of cocoa powder.
  5. Prepare of red food coloring.
  6. It's of flour.
  7. You need of salt.
  8. It's of butter milk.
  9. Prepare of vinilla extract.
  10. Prepare of baking soda.
  11. You need of vinegar.

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. preheat oven to 350°F..
  2. in a mixing bowl, cream the sugrar and butter, beat until light and fluffy..
  3. add the eggs one at a time and mix well after each addition..
  4. mix cocoa and food coloring together and then add to sugar mixture; mix well.
  5. sift together flour and salt. add flour mixture to the creamed alternately with buttermilk..
  6. blend in vanilla. in a small bowl, combine baking soda and vinegar and add to mixture..
  7. pour batter into 3 (8 inch) round greased and floured pans..
  8. bake for 20-25 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. remove from heat and cool completely before 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.