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 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Red velvet cake
- Prepare of flour.
- You need of cocoa (4 tbsp).
- Prepare of sugar.
- Prepare of butter.
- It's of veg oil.
- Prepare of buttermilk.
- You need of baking soda.
- It's of baking powder.
- Prepare of large eggs.
- You need of vanilla.
- Prepare of red food colouring.
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Red velvet cake step by step
- Sift your flour,cocoa,baking powder and soda into a bowl and set aside.
- Add in your colour into your buttermilk and mix together.
- In another bowl cream sugar,vegetable oil and buttter and beat until fluffy.
- Add in your eggs and beat.
- Alternatively add in your dry and wet ingredients in 3 addition and beat until well combined.
- Add vanilla and mix.
- Pour batter into a 10 inch pan and bake until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
Made from scratch, and surprisingly easy when a few simple steps are followed - watch how to make it in the recipe video. This has a soft "velvet" texture, just like what you get from top end fine bakeries, and is topped with soft, cream cheese frosting. UK readers: In our family no one thinks it's Christmas without this Red Velvet Cake recipe. It's different than other Red Velvet Cakes I've tasted over the years, since this one tastes only mildly chocolate and the icing is as light as snow. 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.