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 9 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Red velvet cake
- You need 225 of grm sugar.
- You need 250 of grm croma.
- Prepare 375 of grm flour.
- It's 1/2 of beetroot.
- It's 4 of eggs.
- You need 63 ml of milk.
- It's 63 ml of beetroot juice.
- It's 4 teaspoon of red colour.
- It's 1 tablespoon of baking powder.
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Red velvet cake step by step
- Grate beetroot and boil then let it cool..
- Mix chroma and sugar and mix until fluffy.
- Add the grated beetroot and mix..
- Add colour(half a teaspoon or to your preference)and whip untill they mix well.
- Add eggs and mix for 5 mins.
- Add half of the flour and mix for 5 mins.
- Add the other half of the flour plus the baking powder and mix with your hands or spatula.
- Mix your milk and the beetroot juice and add to the mixture.
- Put in the oven and wait for it to bake. (Make sure to preheat your oven before).
This is similar to the original recipe that began the red velvet craze. It was developed by the Adams Extract company in Gonzales, Tex. 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.