Red Velvet Cake
Red Velvet Cake

Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, red velvet cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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. Red velvet cake is a classic American dessert, but it's becoming more and more popular outside of Although cake flour is usually used for classic red velvet recipes to make it light, I wanted to stick to.

Red Velvet Cake is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Red Velvet Cake is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook red velvet cake using 11 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Red Velvet Cake:
  1. Prepare 2 1/4 cup sifted cake flour (not self rising)
  2. Prepare 1/4 cup cocoa powder
  3. Make ready 1/2 tsp salt
  4. Make ready 8 tbsp (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature
  5. Make ready 1 1/2 cup sugar
  6. Take 2 large eggs, at room temperature
  7. Make ready 2 tbsp liquid red food coloring
  8. Make ready 1 tsp vanilla extract
  9. Make ready 1 cup buttermilk, at room temperature
  10. Make ready 2 tsp distilled white vinegar
  11. Make ready 1 tsp baking soda

This is my version that I've tested and re-tested and tweaked and perfected. 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. The acidity is balanced out by the sweetness of the cake itself. Amazing real red velvet cake recipe.

Instructions to make Red Velvet Cake:
  1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease two 9"x2" round cake pans.
  2. Sift flour, cocoa, and salt into a bowl.
  3. In stand mixer with paddle attachment, beat butter at low speed until creamy
  4. Add sugar; blend on medium speed, scraping bowl occasionally, untill fluffy, about 3 mins.
  5. Add eggs 1 at a time, mixing well after each. Scrape bowl; add food coloring and vanilla.
  6. On low speed, beat in flour mixture in thirds, alternating with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour mixture.
  7. In small bowl, stir together vinegar and baking soda.
  8. Stir into batter
  9. Divide batter between prepared pans; spread evenly.
  10. Bake until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. 25 to 30 mins.

One bowl, one spatula, one amazing cake! The cake is very light and delicate and very moist. A Red Velvet Cake is instantly recognizable with its bright red color offset by a white Cream Cheese Frosting. There are many theories as to its origin. Modern red velvet cakes are made scarlet with red food dye.

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