Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, red velvet cake. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. 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 in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Red Velvet Cake is something that I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook red velvet cake using 20 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Red Velvet Cake:
- Make ready 120 gm maida/All purpose flour
- Get 1 tbsp cocoa powder
- Prepare 55 gm butter
- Get 1/2 tsp vanilla essence
- Take 150 gm castor sugar
- Prepare 1 egg
- Take 100 gm curd
- Make ready 1 tbsp red food colour
- Take 1/2 tsp vinegar
- Make ready 1/2 tsp soda bicarbonate
- Take Frosting
- Get 170 gm cream cheese
- Take 100 gm whipping cream
- Take 80 gm icing sugar
- Take 1/4 tsp vanilla essence
- Prepare 1 tsp red food colour
- Take For moistening the cake
- Prepare 1/2 cup sugar
- Prepare 1/2 cup water
- Make ready as needed small red ball sprinklers
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.
Instructions to make Red Velvet Cake:
- Beat sugar and butter till fluffy. Add the egg and beat well
- In a bowl whisk together cocoa powder, vanilla essence and colour,add it to the egg batter and beat well. Take curds in a cup stir well and add it to the batter
- Add the seived flour and mix with a spatula. Combine vinegar and soda bicarbonate let it fizzz and then add it to the batter. Scrape down the batter making sure all the ingredients are well blended and the batter is smooth
- Pour the batter in a greased 7 inch diameter round tin and bake in a pre heated oven at 180°C for 20 mins
- Frosting:- Beat the cream cheese, add icing sugar beat it well. Whipp the whipping cream until soft peaks formed, then add this to the cream cheese mixture and beat again well keep this in the refrigerator
- Cool the cake and divide into 2 equal parts horizontally. Moist the cake with water and sugar solution and put the cream cheese and spread it,then put the other part of the cake upon it, moist it also and cover the cake with the cream
- In the remaining cream add red colour mix it well put it in the piping bag with 1m nozzle and make roses as per your wish then sprinkle the sprinklers
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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