Easiest Way to Make 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 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Red velvet cake

  1. Prepare 21/2 cups of flour.
  2. You need 1/4 cup of cocoa (4 tbsp).
  3. Prepare 11/2 cup of sugar.
  4. You need 1/2 cup of butter.
  5. You need 1/4 cup of veg oil.
  6. You need 1 1/2 cup of buttermilk.
  7. Prepare 1 tsp of baking soda.
  8. You need 2 tsp of baking powder.
  9. You need 3 of large eggs.
  10. It's 2 tsp of vanilla.
  11. You need 2 tsp of red food colouring.

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. Sift your flour,cocoa,baking powder and soda into a bowl and set aside.
  2. Add in your colour into your buttermilk and mix together.
  3. In another bowl cream sugar,vegetable oil and buttter and beat until fluffy.
  4. Add in your eggs and beat.
  5. Alternatively add in your dry and wet ingredients in 3 addition and beat until well combined.
  6. Add vanilla and mix.
  7. Pour batter into a 10 inch pan and bake until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.

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.