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 is not just a chocolate cake with red food colouring added.
The acidity is balanced out by the sweetness of the cake itself. This recipe produces the best red velvet cake with superior buttery, vanilla, and cocoa flavors, as well as a delicious tang from buttermilk. 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. You can cook Red Velvet Cake using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Red Velvet Cake
- It’s 2 1/2 cups of flour.
- It’s 1 1/2 cups of oil.
- You need 1 tablespoon of vanilla extract.
- You need 1 teaspoon of baking soda.
- It’s 1 tablespoon of white vinegar.
- It’s 2 cups of sugar.
- Prepare 2 tablespoons of cocoa.
- Prepare 1 oz of red food coloring.
- It’s half of teaspoon of salt.
- You need 2 of eggs.
- Prepare 1 cup of buttermilk.
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Red Velvet Cake instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 Cream eggs sugar oil and vanilla on high for 2 minutes.
- Sift salt flour and cocoa in separate bowl.
- Add food coloring to egg mixture and blend for one minute.
- Alternate adding flour and buttermilk ending with flour to the egg mixture.
- Combine vinegar and baking soda then FOLD into batter DON'T over mix.
- Coat two 8 or 9 inch pans with oil and dust with flour.
- Add batter to pans and bake for 25-30 min until tooth pick comes out clean or with crumbs let it cool all the way.
- Ice with cream cheese icing and decorate with nuts (nuts are optional).
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