How to Make Delicious Red velvet cake

Red velvet cake. 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. Overall the cake was nothing special.

Look for a non-alkalized one for this old-fashioned recipe. In a standing mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, or with a hand-held electric mixer in a large bowl, mix the cream cheese, sugar, and butter on low speed until incorporated. Don't wait to indulge in a slice of red velvet cake, a homey classic treat that calls to mind Mom's best baking. You can cook Red velvet cake using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Red velvet cake

1. Prepare 21/2 cups of flour.
2. You need 1/4 cup of cocoa (4 tbsp).
3. Prepare 11/2 cup of sugar.
4. It's 1/2 cup of butter.
5. Prepare 1/4 cup of veg oil.
6. It's 1 1/2 cup of buttermilk.
7. You need 1 tsp of baking soda.
8. You need 2 tsp of baking powder.
9. It's 3 of large eggs.
10. Prepare 2 tsp of vanilla.
11. It's 2 tsp of red food colouring.

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Red velvet cake instructions

1. Sift your flour,cocoa,baking powder and soda into a bowl and set aside.
2. Add in your colour into your buttermilk and mix together.
3. In another bowl cream sugar,vegetable oil and buttter and beat until fluffy.
4. Add in your eggs and beat.
5. Alternatively add in your dry and wet ingredients in 3 addition and beat until well combined.
6. Add vanilla and mix.
7. Pour batter into a 10 inch pan and bake until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.

Food historians says it was a common description during the Victorian era, when the term described cakes that had an especially soft and "velvety" crumb. From the color to the crumb, this homemade red velvet cake is a dessert classic. The absolute best red velvet cake I have ever tasted and I am not a red velvet fan. I made this red velvet cake for my cousins graduation party, since red velvet is his favorite cake flavor. In a large bowl using a hand mixer (or in the bowl of a stand mixer), beat butter and sugar.