Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, red velvet cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. 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 popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Red velvet cake is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook red velvet cake using 20 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Red velvet cake:
- Get Cake
- Prepare 1 1/2 cup sugar
- Make ready 2 eggs
- Prepare 2 1/2 cup flour
- Take 1 1/2 cup vegetable oil
- Prepare 1 cup buttermilk
- Get 1 tbsp vanilla
- Prepare 1 tbsp baking soda
- Prepare 1 tbsp vinegar
- Get 2/3 oz red food coloring
- Prepare 2 tbsp cocoa
- Get 1/2 lb butter
- Prepare Frosting
- Prepare 1 lb powdered sugar
- Take 8 oz cream cheese
- Get 4 oz butter
- Prepare 1 tbsp vanilla
- Take 1 1/4 cup chopped pecans
- Prepare Decoration
- Make ready 1 chocolate bar
Mix soda and vinegar and gently fold into cake batter. 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 food coloring, vinegar and vanilla.
Steps to make Red velvet cake:
- Mix eggs sugar oil and vinegar until creamy
- Add flour and baking soda together while beating mixture
- Add cocoa and butter
- Add buttermilk vanilla and coloring while stirring
- Bake 3 layers at 350°F
- For icing: Melt cream cheese and butter slowly at low temperature
- Add sugar, pecans, and vanilla
- Mix and spread between cake layers finishing by covering all layers
- For Decoration: Use a cheese grater and shred the chocolate bar on top of the cake
The striking red color makes it unforgettable. Beat in food coloring, vinegar and vanilla. This is similar to the original recipe that began the red velvet craze. It was developed by the Adams Extract company in Gonzales, Tex. From the color to the crumb, this homemade red velvet cake is a dessert classic.
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