Red Velvet Cake. 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 has an acidic taste that comes from the use of buttermilk and vinegar as well as the cream cheese in the frosting.
This cake is softer than Putting aside fiddly fancy decorated cakes, Red Velvet Cake is surely one of the most striking and. Although cake flour is usually used for classic red velvet recipes to make it light, I wanted to stick to all-purpose flour in my recipe, so that. This recipe produces the best red velvet cake with superior buttery, vanilla, and cocoa flavors, as well as a delicious tang from buttermilk. You can have Red Velvet Cake using 19 ingredients and 23 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Red Velvet Cake
- You need 21/3 cups of All Purpose Flour.
- Prepare 1/3 cup of corn Flour.
- It’s 1 tsp of Baking Soda.
- It’s 1.5 cups of Sugar.
- You need 110 g of soft unsalted Butter.
- Prepare 1 cup of Buttermilk at room temperature.
- Prepare 3/4 cup of canola/veg Oil.
- You need 1 tsp of Vinegar.
- It’s 1 tbsp of vanilla extract.
- It’s 2 of Eggs.
- Prepare 2.5 tbsp of cocoa powder.
- It’s 1 tsp of Salt.
- Prepare 2.5 tbsp of red food colour.
- Prepare of For frosting.
- You need 450 g of Cream cheese room temperature.
- It’s 110 g of soft Butter.
- You need 2 cups of icing Sugar (adjust).
- You need 2 tbsp of Cream.
- Prepare 1 tsp of Vanilla extract.
The Best Red Velvet Cake recipe is now here! This red velvet cake recipe is the one my mom always used. Red velvet cake has been around for a long time. The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York claims to have invented it, but since that time it has.
Red Velvet Cake step by step
- Mix flours and sieve 4-5 times.
- Sieve cocoa, baking soda and salt..
- Mix all the dry ingredients well and keep it aside.
- Prepare baking pan.use 2 small round pans or big round pan. Preheat oven to 180.
- In a bowl add butter and sugar.
- Blend until creamy for 4-5 minutes.
- Add eggs, 1 at a time and beat until pale and frothy.
- Add buttermilk and blend well.
- Add oil and blend.
- Add vinegar and vanilla extract. blend well.
- Slowly incorporate dry ingredients and blend.
- Add red food colouring and fold in well.
- Pour the batter to prepared cake pan and tap gently.
- Bake for 30-40 minutes until done.
- Allow cake to cool for 15 minutes, demould and allow to cool completely.
- In case you have used big cake pan then slice them in 2 equal halves, reserve cake crumbs if any.
- Flatten the top of the cake, reserve the cake crumbs.
- Blend cream cheese butter until smooth. add icing sugar, vanilla extract with cream to form peaks.
- Place the first cake/sliced cake on top of decorating plate.Apply frosting on top of first cake.
- Now place second cake/second half on top and frost again.
- Once one layer is completed, chill for 15 minutes.
- Now do final frosting and decorate as desired.
- Apply cake crumbs on top and sides, slice and serve.
This red velvet cake recipe is SUPERB!!!! And it passes the stick to the back of the fork test like a champ! Adding a bit of coffee to the batter isn't "traditional" for red velvet cakes but it adds another. Red Velvet Cake is one of those classic recipes that get requested over and over. That rich red color is stunning and paired with a cream cheese frosting, you can't really go wrong.