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. 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. The acidity is balanced out by the sweetness of the cake itself. The only Red Velvet Cake recipe you'll ever need! You can have Red Velvet Cake using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Red Velvet Cake

1. Prepare 1/2 cup of butter.(2 tbsp for greasing).
2. It's 3 tbsp of cocoa powder.
3. You need 1 1/2 cups of sugar.
4. Prepare 2 of eggs.
5. Prepare 2 tsp of vanilla essence.
6. Prepare 2 tbsp of food colouring.
7. You need 1 tsp of salt.
8. It's 1 tsp of baking soda.
9. You need 2 1/2 cups of flour. Sifted.
10. Prepare 1 cup of whole milk.

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Red Velvet Cake instructions

1. Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Greese the pans..
2. Cream butter and sugar together. Add eggs one at a time and beat vigorously until each is incorporated. Mix in vanilla..
3. In a separate bowl, make a paste of the remaining 2 tbsp of cocoa and the food colouring. Blend into the butter..
4. Sift together the remaining dry ingredients. Alternating 2 batches each. Add dry ingredients and whole milk to rhe butter mixture. In the last of milk, mix in the vinegar before adding to the butter.mix until well blended.
5. Divide the butter among 3 pans and bake for about 20 to 25 minutes.
6. Cool in a cooling rack completly..
7. To assemble, remove 1 cake from its pan and place it flat side down on a serving platter. Drop about 1 cup of icing onto the cake and using a flat spatula, spread evenly over the top of first layer. Use the remaining frosting to cover the top and sides of the cake..

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