Easiest Way to Prepare Yummy 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 11 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Red Velvet Cake

  1. It's 3 cup of sugar.
  2. You need 5 of eggs.
  3. It's 2 tsp of vanilla extract.
  4. Prepare 1 1/2 cup of Crisco.
  5. It's 2 tsp of vinegar.
  6. It's 1/3 cup of Cocoa.
  7. You need 3 cup of All purpose flour.
  8. It's 1 tsp of baking powder.
  9. Prepare 1/4 tsp of salt.
  10. Prepare 1 cup of sour cream.
  11. Prepare 2 oz of Red food color.

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. Preheat oven to 350°.
  2. Cream together Crisco, eggs, vanilla, sugar.
  3. Blend in vinegar, cocoa & red food color.
  4. Mix together flour, salt & baking powder.
  5. Add one cup of flour mixture & mix 1 minute.
  6. Next add cup of sour cream, mix one minute.
  7. Add last cup of flour & mix until everything is blended - scrape down sides of bowl.
  8. Grease & flour a bundt pan. Add mixture & bake for 1 hour to 1 hour 10 minutes depending on oven.
  9. Remove from oven & let cool for 10 minutes.
  10. Invert onto cake plate. Once cool, drizzle with cream cheese frosting.
  11. Frosting: Mix together 1 stick of butter, 1 block of cream cheese, 1 box of powdered sugar & 2 tsp of vanilla extract. Pecans optional..

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.