Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, red velvet cake. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Historically, red velvet cake was just chocolate cake tinted red from the acid in cocoa powder, not from food coloring. 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.
Red velvet cake is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Red velvet cake is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook red velvet cake using 20 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Red velvet cake:
- Take Cake
- Prepare 1 1/2 cup sugar
- Get 2 eggs
- Get 2 1/2 cup flour
- Get 1 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- Prepare 1 cup buttermilk
- Make ready 1 tbsp vanilla
- Take 1 tbsp baking soda
- Make ready 1 tbsp vinegar
- Prepare 2/3 oz red food coloring
- Make ready 2 tbsp cocoa
- Prepare 1/2 lb butter
- Get Frosting
- Get 1 lb powdered sugar
- Prepare 8 oz cream cheese
- Take 4 oz butter
- Make ready 1 tbsp vanilla
- Make ready 1 1/4 cup chopped pecans
- Get Decoration
- Get 1 chocolate bar
Mix soda and vinegar and gently fold into cake batter. The combo of vinegar and buttermilk makes a red velvet cake extra tender, light, and fluffy. The striking red color makes it unforgettable. Beat in food coloring, vinegar and vanilla.
Steps to make Red velvet cake:
- Mix eggs sugar oil and vinegar until creamy
- Add flour and baking soda together while beating mixture
- Add cocoa and butter
- Add buttermilk vanilla and coloring while stirring
- Bake 3 layers at 350°F
- For icing: Melt cream cheese and butter slowly at low temperature
- Add sugar, pecans, and vanilla
- Mix and spread between cake layers finishing by covering all layers
- For Decoration: Use a cheese grater and shred the chocolate bar on top of the cake
The striking red color makes it unforgettable. Beat in food coloring, vinegar and vanilla. This is similar to the original recipe that began the red velvet craze. It was developed by the Adams Extract company in Gonzales, Tex. From the color to the crumb, this homemade red velvet cake is a dessert classic.
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