Recipe: Tasty 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 16 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Red velvet cake

  1. You need 1 1/4 cup of cake flour.
  2. You need 1/4 cup of soft butter.
  3. Prepare 1/4 cup of oil.
  4. It's 1/2 cup of buttermilk.
  5. Prepare 1/2 teaspoon of vinegar.
  6. Prepare 1/3 cup of powder sugar.
  7. It's 1 teaspoon of baking powder.
  8. You need 1 teaspoon of baking soda.
  9. You need 2 tablespoon of red food colour.
  10. Prepare 1 teaspoon of vanilla essence.
  11. Prepare 250 gram of cream cheese.
  12. It's of Frosting.
  13. Prepare 1/4 cup of soft butter.
  14. It's 2 cup of icing sugar.
  15. You need 1 cup of whipped cream.
  16. It's 1 teaspoon of Vanilla essence.

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Red velvet cake instructions

  1. Preheat the oven 180 degrees..
  2. Take a large bowl and sift cake flour, baking powder and baking soda..
  3. Take another bowl to add butter and sugar whisk it..
  4. Then Add oil, egg one by one beat them till mixture is creamy..
  5. Add buttermilk and whisk well..
  6. Then slightly beat the egg and sugar with flour, vinegar, vanilla essence and food colour mix it well..
  7. Grease a baking pan with butter and dust with flour..
  8. Transfer the mixture in baking pans..
  9. Bake it for 30 minutes..
  10. Remove the cake from oven and put on the cooling rack and cool completely..
  11. Take a large bowl to add cream cheese, butter, icing sugar and beat on medium flame until mixture is creamy and fluffy..
  12. Add vanilla essence, whipped cream and fold the frosting..
  13. Spread between the layers on the sides and top of the cake..
  14. Red velvet cake is ready..

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.