Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, red velvet cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a 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 is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Red velvet cake is something that I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have red velvet cake using 19 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Red velvet cake:
- Get 1 1/2 cup All purpose flour
- Make ready 1/4 cup corn flour
- Prepare 1.5 tbsp cocoa powder
- Make ready 1 pinch salt
- Make ready 1 tsp baking soda
- Make ready 1 cup sugar
- Prepare 1/2 cup canola oil or any flavorless oil
- Prepare 1 cup Thick buttermilk/chaas
- Get 2 tsp white vinegar
- Make ready 1 tsp vanilla essence
- Get as needed Red food colour
- Take For The Sugar Syrup
- Take 1/4 cup Sugar
- Take 1/4 cup Water
- Make ready Cream Cheese Frosting
- Get 1 1/2 cup cream cheese softened
- Take 5 tbsp unsalted butter softened
- Make ready 1 tsp vanilla Essence
- Get to taste sugar
From the color … This is similar to the original recipe that began the red velvet craze. It was developed by the Adams Extract company in Gonzales, Tex. The original recipe, popularized … The combo of vinegar and buttermilk makes a red velvet cake extra tender, light, and fluffy. The striking red color makes it unforgettable.
Steps to make Red velvet cake:
- Pre heat oven to 180 degree C for 15 minutes then Grease the baking pan and keep aside,Sieve all dry ingredients in one bowl. Give it a quick mix with a dry spoon
- Mix all wet ingredients in another bowl including food colour, mix very well
- Add the dry ingredients to wet ingredients and mix until just combined, do not over mix.
- Transfer the batter into the greased pen and tap it lightly and Bake them for 25 - 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Do not over bake. - - Let it rest for 10 minutes in the pan then turn out onto a cooling rack and allow to cool completely
- For the Frosting - - Combine the butter and cream cheese in a deep bowl and beat it using an electric beater till smooth. - - Gradually add the sugar and beat again till smooth. Cover with a lid and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.
- For the sugar syrup - - Combine the sugar and water in a microwave safe bowl and microwave on high for 2 minutes. Mix well and keep aside.
- Place the red velvet sponge cake on a flat, dry surface and slice it horizontally into 2 equal layers. Keep aside. - - Place both the layers of the red velvet sponge cake on dry surface and soak it with sugar syrup evenly over each layer.
- Put ½ cup of the prepared cream cheese frosting on the lower half of the sponge and spread it evenly. - - Cover with the other half with the soaked sugar syrup side facing upwards and press it lightly. - - Spread 1 cup of the prepared cream cheese frosting on top and at the sides of the cake with the help of a palette knife. - - put the remaining prepared cream cheese frosting in a piping bag with a star nozzle fitted in. Decorate the circumference of the cake by making any design of your choice.
- Make few swirls at equal distance - - Sprinkle some cake crumb and edible coloured sprinklers and balls. - - Refrigerate for atleast 1 hour, Cut into wedges and serve chilled. - - Notes - - I have used Americolor super red gel colour 1 tablespoon.
The original recipe, popularized … The combo of vinegar and buttermilk makes a red velvet cake extra tender, light, and fluffy. The striking red color makes it unforgettable. If you have leftover cake … In a large bowl, cream shortening and sugar until light fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in the food coloring, vinegar, butter … Red velvet cake has an acidic taste that comes from the use of buttermilk and vinegar as well as the cream cheese in the frosting.
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