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 have Red velvet cake using 10 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Red velvet cake
- It's of butter.
- Prepare of powder sugar.
- You need of buttermilk.
- It's of maida.
- It's of coco powder.
- Prepare of baking powder.
- You need of baking soda.
- Prepare of vanilla essence.
- It's of red food colour.
- Prepare of vinegar.
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
- Take a wide bowl add butter, sugar and mix well.
- Add buttermilk, vanilla essence, food colour and mix weLl.
- Seive in the dry ingredients.
- Mix using cut and fold method.
- Just before baking add vinegar and mix wrll.
- Bake for 45 minutes at 180 degree celcius.
- Decorate as per your choice.
- Serve.
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.