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 have Red velvet cake using 19 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Red velvet cake
- Prepare of Dry ingredients:.
- It's 22/3 cup of plain cake flour.
- You need 2 tbsp of cocoa powder unsweetened.
- You need 1 tsp of baking soda.
- Prepare Pinch of salt.
- You need of Wet ingredients:.
- It's 1/2 cup of unsalted butter.
- It's 11/2 cup of sugar.
- Prepare 2 of eggs.
- It's 1 cup of vegetable oil.
- You need 1 tsp of vinegar.
- It's 2 tsp of vanilla extract.
- It's 1 cup of butter milk.
- Prepare 1/2 tbsp of red food colouring liquid.
- It's of Frosting:.
- You need 1 cup of cream cheese.
- It's 1/2 cup of butter at room temperature.
- It's 1 1/2 tsp of vanilla extract.
- It's 4 cups of icing sugar.
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Red velvet cake step by step
- Instructions 1. Preheat oven to 180C/350F (all oven types). Butter two round cake pans (sides and base) and dust with cocoa powder. 2. Shift the Dry Ingredients and whisk to combine in a bowl. 3. Place butter and sugar in a bowl and beat with electric beater or in stand mixer until smooth and well combined 4. Add eggs, one at a time, beating in between to combine. Keep beating until it's smooth..
- 5. Add vegetable oil, vinegar, vanilla, buttermilk and red food colouring. Beat until combined and smooth. 6. Add Dry Ingredients. Beat until just combined - some small lumps is ok, that's better than over mixing..
- 7. Divide batter between cake pans. Bake for 25 - 30 minutes on the same shelf, or until a toothpick inserted into the centre comes out clean. 8. Rest for 10 minutes in the pan then turn out onto a cooling rack and allow to cool..
- Frosting 1. Beat together cream cheese, butter and vanilla for 3 minutes (this makes it really smooth and changes from yellow to almost white). Add icing sugar and beat for 2 minutes or until frosting is light and fluffy to your taste. If your frosting seems too runny (depends on quality of cream cheese/ if the cream cheese was too soft), just add more icing sugar..
- Frost Cake 1. Cut the top off the cake using a knife (to make the layers meat). 2. Spread one cake with 1 1/2 cups of frosting. Top with the other cake. Spread top and sides with remaining frosting..
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