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 10 ingredients and 1 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Red velvet cake
- You need of flour.
- Prepare of eggs.
- Prepare of sugar.
- It's of milk.
- Prepare of melted butter or oil.
- It's of cocoa powder.
- You need of vanilla extract.
- It's of white venigar.
- You need of baking soda.
- You need of red food color.
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
- Mix sugar and oil, add eggs, vanilla extract mix well and pour milk, venigar and baking soda mix and add flour with cocoa powder mix well and finally add red color mix till Incorporated. Then grease your pan, pour the batter and bake in preheat oven until a toothpick inserted comes out clean..
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.