Recipe: Perfect Red Velvet Cake

Red Velvet Cake. 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.

This red velvet cake recipe is the one my mom always used. This recipe produces the best red velvet cake with superior buttery, vanilla, and cocoa flavors, as well as a delicious tang from buttermilk. 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. You can have Red Velvet Cake using 19 ingredients and 23 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Red Velvet Cake

1. It's 21/3 cups of All Purpose Flour.
2. It's 1/3 cup of corn Flour.
3. You need 1 tsp of Baking Soda.
4. Prepare 1.5 cups of Sugar.
5. You need 110 g of soft unsalted Butter.
6. You need 1 cup of Buttermilk at room temperature.
7. Prepare 3/4 cup of canola/veg Oil.
8. It's 1 tsp of Vinegar.
9. Prepare 1 tbsp of vanilla extract.
10. Prepare 2 of Eggs.
11. You need 2.5 tbsp of cocoa powder.
12. It's 1 tsp of Salt.
13. You need 2.5 tbsp of red food colour.
14. Prepare of For frosting.
15. Prepare 450 g of Cream cheese room temperature.
16. You need 110 g of soft Butter.
17. It's 2 cups of icing Sugar (adjust).
18. You need 2 tbsp of Cream.
19. It's 1 tsp of Vanilla extract.

The acidity is balanced out by the sweetness of the cake itself. 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. Торт Красный Бархат \ Red Velvet Cake — Смотреть в Эфире. This red velvet cake recipe is SUPERB!!!!

Red Velvet Cake step by step

1. Mix flours and sieve 4-5 times.
2. Sieve cocoa, baking soda and salt..
3. Mix all the dry ingredients well and keep it aside.
4. Prepare baking pan.use 2 small round pans or big round pan. Preheat oven to 180.
5. In a bowl add butter and sugar.
6. Blend until creamy for 4-5 minutes.
7. Add eggs, 1 at a time and beat until pale and frothy.
8. Add buttermilk and blend well.
9. Add oil and blend.
10. Add vinegar and vanilla extract. blend well.
11. Slowly incorporate dry ingredients and blend.
12. Add red food colouring and fold in well.
13. Pour the batter to prepared cake pan and tap gently.
14. Bake for 30-40 minutes until done.
15. Allow cake to cool for 15 minutes, demould and allow to cool completely.
16. In case you have used big cake pan then slice them in 2 equal halves, reserve cake crumbs if any.
17. Flatten the top of the cake, reserve the cake crumbs.
18. Blend cream cheese butter until smooth. add icing sugar, vanilla extract with cream to form peaks.
19. Place the first cake/sliced cake on top of decorating plate.Apply frosting on top of first cake.
20. Now place second cake/second half on top and frost again.
21. Once one layer is completed, chill for 15 minutes.
22. Now do final frosting and decorate as desired.
23. Apply cake crumbs on top and sides, slice and serve.

And it passes the stick to the back of the fork test like a champ! Adding a bit of coffee to the batter isn't "traditional" for red velvet cakes but it adds another. It's such a beautiful and delicious. Amazing real red velvet cake recipe. One bowl, one spatula, one amazing cake!