Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, red velvet cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Red velvet cake is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Red velvet cake is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
Red velvet cake is traditionally a red, red-brown, crimson or scarlet-colored chocolate layer cake, layered with ermine icing. Traditional recipes do not use food coloring, with the red color due to non-Dutched, anthocyanin-rich cocoa. Red Velvet Cake is not just a chocolate cake with red food colouring added.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook red velvet cake using 18 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Red velvet cake:
- Make ready 2 cups all purpose flour
- Prepare 2 teaspoons unsweetened cocoa
- Prepare 1 teaspoon baking soda
- Make ready 1 teaspoon baking powder
- Prepare 1 teaspoon table salt
- Take 2 cups sugar
- Take 1 cup vegetable oil
- Get 2 large eggs
- Get 1 cup buttermilk
- Make ready 2 teaspoons vanilla
- Prepare 1-1 oz bottle of red food coloring
- Make ready 1/2 cup brewed coffee
- Prepare 1 teaspoon white vinegar
- Prepare cream cheese frosting
- Take 2-8 oz packages of cream cheese
- Make ready 1/2 cup butter, softened
- Take 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- Prepare 4 cups powdered sugar
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Steps to make Red velvet cake:
- Frosting
- Add softened cream cheese into large bowl.Pour in milk, butter and vanilla extract.Mix until well combined.Pour in half of the powdered sugar.Mix until combined.Add the remaining powdered sugar.Mix until smooth and fluffy.Use a spatula to scrape down the side of the bowl if needed.
- Cake batter
- Preheat oven to 325 F. Generously grease and flour (2) 9-inch round cake pans. Set aside.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, baking powder, cocoa powder, and salt. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine the sugar and vegetable oil.Mix in the eggs, buttermilk, vanilla and red food coloring until combined.Stir in the coffee and white vinegar.Combine the wet ingredients with the dry ingredients a little at a time, mixing after each addition, just until combined.
- (Batter will be thin) Pour the batter evenly into each pan.Bake in the middle rack for 30-40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out with moist crumbs clinging to it. Do not over bake as the cake will continue to cook as it cools.
- Let pans cool on a cooling rack until the pans are warm to the touch.Slide a knife or offset spatula around the inside of the pans to loosen the cake from the pan.Gently remove the cakes from the pan and let them finish cooling. (The warm cake will be very delicate)
- Frost the cake with cream cheese frosting when the cakes have cooled completely.
There are many theories as to its origin. Red velvet cake has been around for a long time. The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York claims to have invented it, but since that time it has. Red Velvet Cake is one of those classic recipes that get requested over and over. That rich red color is stunning and paired with a cream cheese frosting, you can't really go wrong.
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