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 have Red Velvet Cake using 19 ingredients and 23 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Red Velvet Cake

1. It's 21/3 cups of All Purpose Flour.
2. Prepare 1/3 cup of corn Flour.
3. It's 1 tsp of Baking Soda.
4. You need 1.5 cups of Sugar.
5. It's 110 g of soft unsalted Butter.
6. You need 1 cup of Buttermilk at room temperature.
7. You need 3/4 cup of canola/veg Oil.
8. You need 1 tsp of Vinegar.
9. Prepare 1 tbsp of vanilla extract.
10. Prepare 2 of Eggs.
11. It's 2.5 tbsp of cocoa powder.
12. You need 1 tsp of Salt.
13. It's 2.5 tbsp of red food colour.
14. It's of For frosting.
15. It's 450 g of Cream cheese room temperature.
16. Prepare 110 g of soft Butter.
17. Prepare 2 cups of icing Sugar (adjust).
18. You need 2 tbsp of Cream.
19. Prepare 1 tsp of Vanilla extract.

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Red Velvet Cake step by step

1. Mix flours and sieve 4-5 times.
2. Sieve cocoa, baking soda and salt..
3. Mix all the dry ingredients well and keep it aside.
4. Prepare baking pan.use 2 small round pans or big round pan. Preheat oven to 180.
5. In a bowl add butter and sugar.
6. Blend until creamy for 4-5 minutes.
7. Add eggs, 1 at a time and beat until pale and frothy.
8. Add buttermilk and blend well.
9. Add oil and blend.
10. Add vinegar and vanilla extract. blend well.
11. Slowly incorporate dry ingredients and blend.
12. Add red food colouring and fold in well.
13. Pour the batter to prepared cake pan and tap gently.
14. Bake for 30-40 minutes until done.
15. Allow cake to cool for 15 minutes, demould and allow to cool completely.
16. In case you have used big cake pan then slice them in 2 equal halves, reserve cake crumbs if any.
17. Flatten the top of the cake, reserve the cake crumbs.
18. Blend cream cheese butter until smooth. add icing sugar, vanilla extract with cream to form peaks.
19. Place the first cake/sliced cake on top of decorating plate.Apply frosting on top of first cake.
20. Now place second cake/second half on top and frost again.
21. Once one layer is completed, chill for 15 minutes.
22. Now do final frosting and decorate as desired.
23. Apply cake crumbs on top and sides, slice and serve.

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