Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, red velvet cake. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Red velvet cake is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. Red velvet cake is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have red velvet cake using 19 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Red velvet cake:
- Make ready sugar
- Get oil
- Get whole eggs
- Take red food coloring
- Take vanilla extract
- Prepare all purpose flour
- Prepare cornflour
- Take cocoa powder
- Take salt
- Take buttermilk
- Make ready white vinegar
- Make ready baking soda
- Get cream cheese frosting
- Prepare cream cheese
- Make ready Butter
- Take vanilla extract
- Make ready icing sugar, sifted
- Make ready Special equipment:
- Make ready (8-inch) round cake pans
Instructions to make Red velvet cake:
- Preheat the oven to 180°C (350 degrees F). Grease three round cake pans and line with parchment paper.
- Combine the sugar and oil and mix together. Add the eggs, red color and vanilla, and mix again.
- In a separate bowl combine the flour, cornstarch, cocoa powder and salt. Then add half of the dry mixture to the wet mixture, followed by half of the buttermilk. Then add in the remaining dry ingredients and the remaining buttermilk. In a separate small bowl mix together the vinegar and baking soda, then add to the batter and combine.
- Pour the batter into the prepared cake pans and bake until a toothpick inserted into the center of the pan comes out clean, 20 to 25 minutes. Cool slightly in the pan, then invert the cakes on to a wire rack to finish cooling. - For the frosting: Beat the cream cheese, butter and vanilla until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in the powder sugar. Cover and refrigerate until needed.
- You can always control how much sweet you want your frosting. Taste after every other addition of the icing sugar to obtain your perfect taste of sweetness. - To assemble, place one of the cakes on a cake plate or stand. Top the first layer of cake with a generous, even layer of frosting. Place in the freezer to firm the frosting, about 10 minutes.
- Once firm, place the next cake layer on top and cover with more frosting. Freeze again for 10 minutes.
- Place the third layer on top and cover the tops and sides with a thin "crumb" layer of frosting and freeze again for 10 minutes. - Cover the entire top and sides of the cake with a thick, even layer of frosting, covering the crumb coat.
- BUTTERMILK RECIPE - For 1 CUP - Ingredients - 2 tablespoons freshly squeezed lemon juice - 1 Cup (8oz / 224g / 250ml) milk (full or semi fat)
- Method
- Measure the milk into a jug - Stir in lemon juice into the milk. Stir to combine. - Let sit for 30 minutes at room temperature until the milk begins to curdle and becomes acidic. - RED Velvet Cake requires pretty much of red food coloring to obtain the bright red color. However, please do bear in mind that coloring is bad for health. Personally, if i have to make my cake it would be plainish velvet as i would prefer to exclude the gel coloring.
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