Red velvet cake
Red velvet cake

Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, red velvet cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Red velvet cake is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Red velvet cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

Browse For Yummy & Hassle-Free Cake & Cupcake Recipes From Kraft®. 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.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook red velvet cake using 14 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Red velvet cake:
  1. Get 300 g sugar
  2. Get 100 g butter/ margarine
  3. Take 250 g plain flower
  4. Prepare 1 tsp baking powder
  5. Prepare 1 tsp vanilla essence
  6. Take 2 tsp apple cidger vinegar
  7. Prepare 2 eggs
  8. Prepare 3/4 tsp red food colour
  9. Prepare 3/4 tsp co co powder
  10. Take 150 ml butter milk or 140ml milk with 2 tsp lemon juice
  11. Make ready Cream cheese icing 🤤
  12. Prepare 150 g butter/ margarine
  13. Make ready 150 g cream cheese
  14. Make ready 400 g icing sugar

Make a paste of cocoa and red food coloring; add to creamed mixture. Add the flour to the batter, alternating with the buttermilk mixture, mixing just until incorporated. Mix soda and vinegar and gently fold into cake batter. Beat in food coloring, vinegar and vanilla.

Instructions to make Red velvet cake:
  1. Turn the oven on to 170 fan
  2. Use two approx 20cm round tins. Grease and line them.
  3. Mix together the butter and sugar with an electric whisk until creamed.
  4. Add in the eggs then mix in together.
  5. Add the co co powder, vanilla and the food colour mix.
  6. Add in the buttermilk or milk and lemon a little at a time. Add some flour then add some milk then add some flour and then some milk etc….
  7. In a separate cup mix your baking power/ bicarbonate of soda in with the apple cider vinegar. Pour that into your cake mix and stir well.
  8. Evenly split the mix into your two cake tins and bake in the middle of the oven for around 30 mins.
  9. Whilst your cakes are cooling down you can make the icing
  10. First mix the butter and cream cheese together. Then add in the icing sugar and stir it all together.
  11. Use a spoon or knife or what even you find easiest to ice your cake. I keep this cake in the fridge because I think the icing is nicer cold.

Mix soda and vinegar and gently fold into cake batter. Beat in food coloring, vinegar and vanilla. 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. It was developed by the Adams Extract company in Gonzales, Tex.

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