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 cook Red Velvet Cake using 11 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Red Velvet Cake
- You need 125 gram of All purpose flour.
- Prepare 125 gram of powder sugar.
- Prepare 3 of Eggs.
- Prepare 75 gram of Butter.
- Prepare 1teaspoon of Cocoa.
- It's 1 teaspoon of Red Colour.
- It's 1/2 teaspoon of Coffee powder.
- Prepare 4-5 drops of Vanilla extract.
- You need 50 grams of Amul cheese.
- It's as required of Whipped cream.
- Prepare 2-3 drops of Red food colour.
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Red Velvet Cake instructions
- Whipp eggs, sugar & vanilla extract together in a bowl till frothy.Add butter and beat again..
- Add all purpose flour baking powder and beat for another 1 minute..
- Add cocoa, coffee and red colour one by one and keep mixing..
- Bake in greased tray at 180 C in preheated oven for 20-25mins.
- Cool once baked..
- To Prepare cheese cream filling,whip together amul plain cheese and whipped cream, beat 1minute..
- Now layer the cake in 3 equal parts.Put sugar syrup and then spread cream cheese filling.Place another layer of sponge and repeat same..
- Place the top layer and now spread all over the whipped cream evenly..
- I took gel and mixed in some red colour in it..
- Then put in piping bag above red gel and make lines with it on cake.Then with toothpick pull vertical lines down wards to form the net design..
- Chill the cake 2-3hrs before cutting.Interior part looks awesome when you cut..
- Hence the gorgeous red colour in this cake adds to the beauty of this Cake..
- A must for Easter !!!.
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.