Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, red velvet cake. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Red velvet cake is traditionally a red, red-brown, crimson or scarlet-colored chocolate layer cake, layered with ermine icing. Traditional recipes do not use food coloring. Red velvet cake is a classic American dessert, but it's becoming more and more popular outside of Although cake flour is usually used for classic red velvet recipes to make it light, I wanted to stick to.
Red velvet cake is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Red velvet cake is something that I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook red velvet cake using 20 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Red velvet cake:
- Get 2 cups all purpose flour
- Get 1 tsp salt
- Take 1 tsp baking powder
- Make ready I tsp cocoa powder
- Prepare 3/4 butter or oil
- Prepare 1 1/2 cup sugar
- Get 1 ounce red food coloring
- Prepare 2 eggs
- Make ready I cup buttermilk
- Take 1 tsp baking soda
- Take 1 tsp vinegar
- Make ready 1 tsp vanilla
- Prepare Frosting
- Prepare 1 (8 oz) bar cream cheese softened
- Get (1/2 cup) stick of butter
- Take 2 tsp vanilla
- Get 3 cups powdered sugar
- Make ready Topping for cake
- Prepare 3/4 cup milk
- Get 1/2 cup sugar
This is my version that I've tested and re-tested and tweaked and perfected. Red velvet cake has an acidic taste that comes from the use of buttermilk and vinegar as well as the cream cheese in the frosting. The acidity is balanced out by the sweetness of the cake itself. Amazing real red velvet cake recipe.
Instructions to make Red velvet cake:
- Put flour, baking powder, salt, and cocoa powder in small bowl and stir. In large bowl cream butter and sugar with mixer, and eggs one at a time mixing well after each. Add red food coloring to butter mixture and mix well. Place buttermilk and soda in small bowl and mix well with with spoon. Alternately add buttermilk mixture, and flour mixture to large bowl and beat until combined. Mix in vanilla and vinegar. Bake at 350° for 30 minutes or until done.
- For frosting beat cream cheese and butter until creamy. Add vanilla and powder sugar, beat until light and fluffy with mixer.
- Before adding frosting bring sugar and milk to a boil to dissolve sugar, then poke holes in cake adding sugar and milk mixture evenly on both. Let cool, then frost cake with frosting.
One bowl, one spatula, one amazing cake! The cake is very light and delicate and very moist. A Red Velvet Cake is instantly recognizable with its bright red color offset by a white Cream Cheese Frosting. There are many theories as to its origin. Modern red velvet cakes are made scarlet with red food dye.
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