Recipe: Delicious 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 cook Red Velvet Cake using 16 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Red Velvet Cake

1. You need 190 gms of maida.
2. You need 1 of & 1/2 tbsp cocoa powder.
3. You need 125 gms of sugar.
4. You need 85 gms of butter.
5. It's 200 gms of buttermilk.
6. You need 1 tsp of baking powder.
7. It's 1/4 tsp of baking soda.
8. It's 2 tsp of vanilla essence.
9. It's 1.5 tsp of red gel food colour.
10. It's 1 tsp of white vinegar.
11. Prepare of Icing.
12. You need 1/2 cup of Rich's gold whipping cream.
13. You need 190 gms of cream cheese.
14. You need of Soaking syrup.
15. It's 3 tbsp of water.
16. You need 1.5 tbsp of sugar.

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Red Velvet Cake instructions

1. Soft together maida, cocoa powder, baking soda and baking powder and set aside. Cream the butter and sugar till light in texture. To the butter add the buttermilk, vanilla, red food colour and mix well. Add the sifted flour and vinegar and mix everything well..
2. Pour the batter in a greased and lined cake tin and bake at 180°C for 40 to 45 minutes or till a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Let the cake cool down..
3. Preparing the icing. Beat the cream till you get stiff peaks. Mix icing sugar with cream cheese and whip it well so that it is smooth and lump free. Fold in the whipped cream. Set aside in the refrigerator..
4. Assembling the cake. Cut out the top crust to get a flat top. Cut the cake with the help of a thread or knife into 3 sections. Crumble the cut out crust and save for garnishing..
5. On a cake board apply little cream and place one slice of the cake. Apply some soaking syrup with the help of a brush. Spread the cream cheese icing with the help of a palate knife. Repeat for all the 3 layers. Cover the entire cake with cream cheese icing and garnish using the crumbled cake. Enjoy!.

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