Recipe: Yummy 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 14 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Red velvet cake

1. It's 300 g of sugar.
2. It's 100 g of butter/ margarine.
3. You need 250 g of plain flower.
4. You need 1 tsp of baking powder.
5. Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla essence.
6. Prepare 2 tsp of apple cidger vinegar.
7. You need 2 of eggs.
8. It's 3/4 tsp of red food colour.
9. It's 3/4 tsp of co co powder.
10. Prepare 150 ml of butter milk or 140ml milk with 2 tsp lemon juice.
11. You need of Cream cheese icing 🤤.
12. Prepare 150 g of butter/ margarine.
13. It's 150 g of cream cheese.
14. Prepare 400 g of icing sugar.

This is thee red velvet cake you need in your recipe box!! This is my version that I've tested and re-tested and tweaked and perfected. Frost with cream cheese frosting or white frosting. A Red Velvet Cake is instantly recognizable with its bright red color offset by a white Cream Cheese Frosting.

Red velvet cake instructions

1. Turn the oven on to 170 fan.
2. Use two approx 20cm round tins. Grease and line them..
3. Mix together the butter and sugar with an electric whisk until creamed..
4. Add in the eggs then mix in together..
5. Add the co co powder, vanilla and the food colour mix..
6. Add in the buttermilk or milk and lemon a little at a time. Add some flour then add some milk then add some flour and then some milk etc.....
7. In a separate cup mix your baking power/ bicarbonate of soda in with the apple cider vinegar. Pour that into your cake mix and stir well..
8. Evenly split the mix into your two cake tins and bake in the middle of the oven for around 30 mins..
9. Whilst your cakes are cooling down you can make the icing.
10. First mix the butter and cream cheese together. Then add in the icing sugar and stir it all together..
11. Use a spoon or knife or what even you find easiest to ice your cake. I keep this cake in the fridge because I think the icing is nicer cold..

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