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 cook Red velvet cake using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Red velvet cake

  1. Prepare of all purpose flour.
  2. You need of corn flour.
  3. Prepare of drinking chocolate powder.
  4. It's of milk.
  5. Prepare of Butter.
  6. It's of brown sugar.
  7. It's of Salt.
  8. You need of Vanille essence.
  9. It's of large eggs.
  10. It's of Red food colour.
  11. You need of Baking powder and soda.
  12. You need of Cooking oil.

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. Sieve the dry ingredients together and set aside.
  2. Grease your baking tin with butter and place a parchment paper.
  3. In a bowl beat your egg whites until fluffy, add your butter and sugar and mix to a smooth consistency.
  4. Add your oil and vanilla extract into the paste and add your egg yolks one at a time.
  5. Take the dry ingredients and start adding them to the batter in 3 parts while adding the milk slowly.
  6. After your batter is smooth place it in your baking tin and bake at 180° for about 45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
  7. And here is the last result did a butter frosting on the cake.

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.