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 20 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Red Velvet Cake

It's 120 gm of maida/All purpose flour.
Prepare 1 tbsp of cocoa powder.
You need 55 gm of butter.
It's 1/2 tsp of vanilla essence.
You need 150 gm of castor sugar.
It's 1 of egg.
Prepare 100 gm of curd.
It's 1 tbsp of red food colour.
Prepare 1/2 tsp of vinegar.
Prepare 1/2 tsp of soda bicarbonate.
It's of Frosting.
You need 170 gm of cream cheese.
It's 100 gm of whipping cream.
You need 80 gm of icing sugar.
It's 1/4 tsp of vanilla essence.
Prepare 1 tsp of red food colour.
It's of For moistening the cake.
It's 1/2 cup of sugar.
It's 1/2 cup of water.
Prepare as needed of small red ball sprinklers.

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Red Velvet Cake instructions

Beat sugar and butter till fluffy. Add the egg and beat well.
In a bowl whisk together cocoa powder, vanilla essence and colour,add it to the egg batter and beat well. Take curds in a cup stir well and add it to the batter.
Add the seived flour and mix with a spatula. Combine vinegar and soda bicarbonate let it fizzz and then add it to the batter. Scrape down the batter making sure all the ingredients are well blended and the batter is smooth.
Pour the batter in a greased 7 inch diameter round tin and bake in a pre heated oven at 180°C for 20 mins.
Frosting:- Beat the cream cheese, add icing sugar beat it well. Whipp the whipping cream until soft peaks formed, then add this to the cream cheese mixture and beat again well keep this in the refrigerator.
Cool the cake and divide into 2 equal parts horizontally. Moist the cake with water and sugar solution and put the cream cheese and spread it,then put the other part of the cake upon it, moist it also and cover the cake with the cream.
In the remaining cream add red colour mix it well put it in the piping bag with 1m nozzle and make roses as per your wish then sprinkle the sprinklers.

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