How to Make 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 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Red velvet  cake

  1. Prepare of self-rising flour.
  2. Prepare of white sugar.
  3. You need of vegetable oil.
  4. It's of baking soda.
  5. You need of white vinegar.
  6. It's of buttermilk.
  7. It's of vanilla extract.
  8. Prepare of eggs.
  9. It's of red food coloring.

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. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease baking dish with cooking spray or butter.
  2. In a large bowl, mix together sugar, oil, and eggs and set aside; In another bowl, add food coloring and vinegar into the buttermilk; Sift flour, add baking soda to the flour..
  3. Gradually add flour mixture and buttermilk mixtures alternately to the sugar mixture. Mix well with a whisk or wooden spoon; if you have an electric mixer this will make your work easier and faster..
  4. Stir 1 teaspoon vanilla into batter; Pour batter into prepared pans;.
  5. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, or until done..
  6. Remove from oven, and cool on out.

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.