Red velvet cake

Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, red velvet cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look 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 is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Red velvet cake is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have red velvet cake using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Red velvet cake:
  1. Prepare 1 cup (118 g) Flour
  2. Prepare 3⁄4 cup (150 g) sugar
  3. Make ready 1 Tbsp (2g)cocoa powder
  4. Prepare 2⁄3 cup (147 ml) vegetable oil
  5. Take 1⁄2 cup (125 ml) buttermilk
  6. Prepare 1⁄2 tsp (2 ml) vanilla essence
  7. Get 1⁄2 tsp (2 ml) white vinegar
  8. Make ready 1 Tbsp (15 ml) red food colouring
  9. Take 1 large egg
  10. Take 1⁄2 tsp (3 g) baking soda

Add the flour to the batter, alternating with the buttermilk mixture, mixing just until incorporated. Mix soda and vinegar and gently fold into cake batter. Beat in food coloring, vinegar and vanilla. The combo of vinegar and buttermilk makes a red velvet cake extra tender, light, and fluffy.

Steps to make Red velvet cake:
  1. Sieve flour, baking soda, cocoa powder and keep aside.
  2. In another bowl, add egg, oil, sugar and vanilla. Mix until well combined and emulsified.
  3. Add in red food colour and vinegar and mix.
  4. Alternate flour & buttermilk. Mix in half of the flour to the mixture. And then the buttermilk, then rest of the flour. Scraping sides of bowl.
  5. Pour into greased and floured baking pan bake for 20 to 30 minutes in 180°c oven. Or until toothpick inserted into it comes out clean.
  6. Remove cake from oven, allow to cool for 10 minutes in pan and remove to cool completely on rack.
  7. To make buttermilk. Add 1⁄2 tbsp of white vinegar or lemon to 1⁄2 cup and fill it up with milk. Mix and allow to sit for 5 minutes.

Beat in food coloring, vinegar and vanilla. 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 scraps you can make these Red. This is similar to the original recipe that began the red velvet craze.

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