Recipe: Perfect My red velvet cake

My red velvet cake. Come See our Unique Cake Gifts! This is a wonderful traditional Red Velvet Cake recipe and the frosting puts it over the top. Having read through the comments I think this recipe is problematic because people have made modifications that effect the chemistry of the cake.

Made from scratch, and surprisingly easy when a few simple steps are followed - watch how to make it in the recipe video. This has a soft "velvet" texture, just like what you get from top end fine bakeries, and is topped with soft, cream cheese frosting. Sift flour, baking soda and coco together. You can have My red velvet cake using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of My red velvet cake

1. You need 1 1/2 of vegetable oil.
2. Prepare 2 of eggs.
3. Prepare 1 cup of milk.
4. You need 1 tsp of vinegar.
5. You need 1 tsp of vanilla.
6. Prepare 2 cups of sugar.
7. You need 1 tsp of cocoa powder.
8. You need 1 tsp of salt.
9. Prepare 1 tsp of baking soda.
10. You need 2 1/2 cups of all purpose flour.
11. You need of red food coloring.

Beat sugar and eggs together in a large bowl. My grandmother often had one sitting under a cake dome on her kitchen counter, and those red velvet cake layers slathered in cream cheese frosting just called to me! I loved the moist and chocolatey, cream cheese-filled layers, but I think that it was the dramatic RED that I loved the most. Red velvet cake is a layered red-colored cake with a white icing and a subtle chocolate flavor.

My red velvet cake step by step

1. Preheat oven to 350°f coat 3,8 inch round pans with nonstick spray.Cut parchment rounds to fit in the buttom of the pans,place the parchment rounds in the pans and coat again with nonstick spray...Set aside.
2. In the bowl of ur container fitted with the whisk attachment add the oil,eggs,milk,vinegar and vanilla,mix on medium speed until combined.Add in the sugar and mix until incorporated.
3. Next add the cocoa powder,salt,baking soda,mixing on medium spees for about 30 seconds or until no lumps remain in the cocoa powder.
4. Add in the flour and red food coloring mix until smooth,30seconds minute,scraping the sides of the bowl as necessary.
5. Divide the batter equally into the 3prepared pans.
6. Bake for 25-30 minites or until a tooth pick inserted in the center comes out clean.
7. Cool in pan for 10minutes and then turn the cakes out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
8. Frost as desired.

The fine crumb and smooth texture is essential to a proper Red Velvet cake. Instead, there's a variety of Red Velvet cake recipes, all claiming to be the real one. It's different than other Red Velvet Cakes I've tasted over the years, since this one tastes only mildly chocolate and the icing is as light as snow. In a large bowl, sift together the flour, sugar, baking soda, salt, and cocoa powder. **A note about the color: this Red Velvet Cake is not a vibrant red…it is more of a "chocolate red". The lighting in the photo above makes it look a bit more red.