Recipe: Tasty 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 14 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Red velvet cake

1. Prepare 3 cups of all purpose flour.
2. It's 11/2 cups of granulated sugar.
3. You need 1/2 cup of cornstarch.
4. Prepare 1/2 cup of unsweetened cocoa powder.
5. Prepare 1 tablespoon of baking soda.
6. Prepare 1 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder.
7. You need 1 teaspoon of salt.
8. You need 4 of large eggs.
9. You need 1 1/2 cups of buttermilk.
10. It's 1 1/4 cups of warm water.
11. Prepare 1/2 of vegetable oil.
12. Prepare 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract.
13. You need 1 teaspoon of distilled white vinegar.
14. You need 2 tablespoons of red food coloring.

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Red velvet cake instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter three 9 inch cake rounds. Dust with flour and tap out the excess..
2. Mix together flour, sugar, cornstarch, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda & salt in a stand mixer using a low speed until combined.
3. Add eggs, buttermilk, warm water, oil, vanilla, vinegar and red food coloring. Beat on a medium speed until smooth. This should take only a couple of minutes.
4. Divide batter into the three prepared pans.
5. Bake for 30-35minutes until the cake meets the toothpick test. (stick a toothpick in and it comes out clean).
6. Cool on wire racks for 15 minutes & then turn out the cakes and allow to cool completely before frosting.

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