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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook red velvet cake using 18 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Red velvet cake:
- Prepare 2 cups all purpose flour
- Get 2 teaspoons unsweetened cocoa
- Make ready 1 teaspoon baking soda
- Make ready 1 teaspoon baking powder
- Get 1 teaspoon table salt
- Make ready 2 cups sugar
- Make ready 1 cup vegetable oil
- Get 2 large eggs
- Get 1 cup buttermilk
- Get 2 teaspoons vanilla
- Prepare 1-1 oz bottle of red food coloring
- Make ready 1/2 cup brewed coffee
- Prepare 1 teaspoon white vinegar
- Get cream cheese frosting
- Get 2-8 oz packages of cream cheese
- Prepare 1/2 cup butter, softened
- Take 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- Make ready 4 cups powdered sugar
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. The striking red color makes it unforgettable. Beat in the food coloring, vinegar, butter flavoring and vanilla.
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.
The striking red color makes it unforgettable. Beat in the food coloring, vinegar, butter flavoring and vanilla. Combine the flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk, beating well after each addition. 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. Red Velvet Cake is not just a chocolate cake with red food colouring added.
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