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 9 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Red velvet cake

  1. You need 500 g of baking flour.
  2. Prepare 250 g of butter.
  3. It's 150 g of sugar.
  4. It's 2 tsp of baking powder.
  5. You need 240 ml of buttermilk.
  6. It's 1/4 tsp of red food colour.
  7. You need 2 tsp of full dark cocoa.
  8. Prepare 3 of eggs.
  9. Prepare 1 tsp of baking soda.

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. Sieve the flour, bakind soda, baking powder,and cocoa..
  2. Place butter and sugar in a bowl and beat and completely mixed then add the eggs one at a time as you beat.
  3. Mix 2tsp vinegar and milk to make buttermilk then add red food colour in the buttermilk.
  4. Add the dry ingredients to the mixture slowly while adding the but the buttermilk in turns..
  5. When all flour is mixed in grease a sufuria and also add flour to the sufuria..
  6. Prepare the jiko - i used mawe tatu method. Pour batter into the greased sufuria and place inthe bigger sufuria and cover.
  7. My cake took around one hour till it was done. I let it cool then it was ready to be eaten.

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.