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 have Red Velvet Cake using 13 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Red Velvet Cake

  1. Prepare of cake flour/ all purpose flour.
  2. Prepare of powdered sugar.
  3. Prepare of cocoa powder.
  4. Prepare of baking powder.
  5. You need of baking soda.
  6. It's of butter.
  7. Prepare of buttermilk.
  8. Prepare of oil.
  9. Prepare of eggs (optional).
  10. It's of red food colour.
  11. Prepare of vanilla extract.
  12. You need of decoration:.
  13. It's of Whipped Icing cream.

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. In a bowl sieve together flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and mix well..
  2. Now beat butter into the flour mixture.Beat until resembles coarse crumbs..
  3. In another bowl whisk together eggs, oil, buttermilk, food colour and vanilla extract..
  4. Add wet mixture into the dry mixture and beat (with electronic beater)until mixture becomes smooth and silky..
  5. Pour the batter into prepared greased tin,tap it nicely 4-5 times and bake for 30 mins. Or until baked properly, In preheated microwave oven on 180℃..
  6. After done, let it cool and cut it to make 2 parts from center..
  7. Place one part on cake board, spread icing cream evenly then put second part of cake on it. Again spread icing cream all over the cake, cover all sides too with cream..
  8. Keep it in refrigerator to set for about an hour..
  9. After an hour take it out from refrigerator and apply more icing cream all over the cake and decorate according to your choice..
  10. 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.