Steps to Make Perfect Red Velvet Cake

Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, red velvet cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Historically, red velvet cake was just chocolate cake tinted red from the acid in cocoa powder, not from food coloring. Nowadays most cocoa powders are alkalized, as in stripped of acid. Look for a non-alkalized one for this old-fashioned recipe. Completing the classic look is a coat of bright white ermine frosting, cooked the old-fashioned way.

Red Velvet Cake is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Red Velvet Cake is something that I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have red velvet cake using 16 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Red Velvet Cake:

1. Make ready 2 1/2 cup flour
2. Take 1 tsp baking soda
3. Prepare 1 tsp salt
4. Prepare 3 tbsp cocoa
5. Take 2 cup vegetable oil
6. Take 2 cup sugar
7. Prepare 3 large eggs
8. Get 1 tsp vanilla extract
9. Get 1 tsp vinegar
10. Prepare 1 oz red food color
11. Make ready 1 cup buttermilk
12. Get 1 stick butter
13. Prepare 8 oz cream cheese
14. Take 1 tsp vanilla
15. Take 3 cup powdered sugar
16. Take 1 cup chopped pecans

Add the flour to the batter, alternating with the buttermilk mixture, mixing just until incorporated. Mix soda and vinegar and gently fold into cake batter. This is similar to the original recipe that began the red velvet craze. It was developed by the Adams Extract company in Gonzales, Tex.

Instructions to make Red Velvet Cake:

1. preheat oven to 350
2. mix flour, baking soda, salt, and cocoa. Set aside
3. Mix oil and sugar. Add eggs one at a time blending well after each. Add vinegar, vanilla, and coloring. Mix well.
4. Blend in flour mixture alternately with buttermilk.
5. Pour into 3 greased 9 inch round pans. Bake for 30 minutes.
6. For icing beat butter and cream cheese until smooth. Add vanilla and blend well. Slowly add powered sugar. Blend in nuts.

This is similar to the original recipe that began the red velvet craze. It was developed by the Adams Extract company in Gonzales, Tex. Food historians says it was a common description during the Victorian era, when the term described cakes that had an especially soft and "velvety" crumb. From the color to the crumb, this homemade red velvet cake is a dessert classic. The cake is very moist with a buttery chocolate taste.

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