Recipe: Delicious Red Velvet Cake

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Red Velvet Cake. Browse For Yummy & Hassle-Free Cake & Cupcake Recipes From Kraft®. 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.

Red Velvet Cake However I am willing to try it again just to make sure it was not my own fault. Nowadays most cocoa powders are alkalized, as in stripped of acid. Look for a non-alkalized one for this old-fashioned recipe. You can cook Red Velvet Cake using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Red Velvet Cake

  1. You need 1/2 cup of butter.(2 tbsp for greasing).
  2. It's 3 tbsp of cocoa powder.
  3. Prepare 1 1/2 cups of sugar.
  4. Prepare 2 of eggs.
  5. You need 2 tsp of vanilla essence.
  6. It's 2 tbsp of food colouring.
  7. It's 1 tsp of salt.
  8. It's 1 tsp of baking soda.
  9. Prepare 2 1/2 cups of flour. Sifted.
  10. You need 1 cup of whole milk.

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Red Velvet Cake instructions

  1. Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Greese the pans..
  2. Cream butter and sugar together. Add eggs one at a time and beat vigorously until each is incorporated. Mix in vanilla..
  3. In a separate bowl, make a paste of the remaining 2 tbsp of cocoa and the food colouring. Blend into the butter..
  4. Sift together the remaining dry ingredients. Alternating 2 batches each. Add dry ingredients and whole milk to rhe butter mixture. In the last of milk, mix in the vinegar before adding to the butter.mix until well blended.
  5. Divide the butter among 3 pans and bake for about 20 to 25 minutes.
  6. Cool in a cooling rack completly..
  7. To assemble, remove 1 cake from its pan and place it flat side down on a serving platter. Drop about 1 cup of icing onto the cake and using a flat spatula, spread evenly over the top of first layer. Use the remaining frosting to cover the top and sides of the cake..

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. This has a soft "velvet" texture, just like what you get from top end fine bakeries, and is topped with soft, cream cheese frosting. UK readers: In our family no one thinks it's Christmas without this Red Velvet Cake recipe. It's different than other Red Velvet Cakes I've tasted over the years, since this one tastes only mildly chocolate and the icing is as light as snow.