Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, red velvet cake #christmasbaking. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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. Completing the classic look is a coat of bright white ermine frosting, cooked the old-fashioned way.
Red velvet cake #Christmasbaking is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Red velvet cake #Christmasbaking is something which I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have red velvet cake #christmasbaking using 12 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Red velvet cake #Christmasbaking:
- Take 3 cups all purpose flour
- Prepare 1 tsp baking soda
- Prepare 2 tbs cocoa powder
- Make ready 1/2 tsp salt
- Get 1 cup butter or margarine
- Make ready 2 cups sugar
- Take 1 cup vegetable oil
- Get 4 large eggs
- Take 1 1/2 tbs vanilla essence
- Take 1 tsp vinegar
- Prepare 2 tbs maimun red velvet colour
- Prepare 1 cup butter milk
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. 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.
Steps to make Red velvet cake #Christmasbaking:
- Preheat oven to 180°C and prepare your baking tin
- Whisk flour, salt, baking soda and cocoa until well blended
- In another bowl, beat butter for 2 mins until fluffy
- Add sugar and beat for 2 mins
- Add oil and beat for 2 mins
- Add egg yolks(the yellow part of an egg) and beat for 2 mins
- Add vinegar, vanilla and food colouring and mix
- Fold in buttermilk
- Add flour alternatively in three portions
- Fold well with a spatula or mwiko but dont overmix
- Whipp egg whites on high speed for 5 mins until fluffy
- Gently fold in the egg whites to the mix
- Bake for 30-40mins
- When its ready, remove from oven and wait for 10mins and then remove from the baking tin
- Let the cake cool for around 1hr
- Level it, and start layering it with whip cream
- Polish the cake with a good finish and enjoy!
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. The combo of vinegar and buttermilk makes a red velvet cake extra tender, light, and fluffy.
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