Recipe: Perfect Red Velvet Cake

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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, with the red color due to non-Dutched, anthocyanin-rich cocoa. Red Velvet Cake is not just a chocolate cake with red food colouring added.

Red Velvet Cake 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. This is my favorite Red Velvet Cake recipe! To make Red Velvet Cake you need 15 ingredients and just 11 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients

  1. It's of flour.
  2. Prepare of sugar.
  3. Prepare of baking soda.
  4. It's of salt.
  5. Prepare of cocoa.
  6. You need of oil.
  7. It's of buttermilk.
  8. Prepare of eggs.
  9. You need of red coloring.
  10. You need of vanilla.
  11. Prepare of vinegar.
  12. Prepare of cream cheese.
  13. Prepare of powdered sugar.
  14. You need of butter.
  15. Prepare of vanilla.

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Red Velvet Cake directions

  1. Sift dry ingredients together in mixer bowl..
  2. Whisk wet (through vinegar) ingredients together in bowl. Mix well..
  3. Slowly add wet ingredients to dry, mixing well.
  4. Pour into 3 9" pans. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes..
  5. Icing.
  6. Cream butter and cream cheese until smoooth and well blended..
  7. Add vanilla and mix well.
  8. Add powdered sugar a little at a time mixing well..
  9. Assembly.
  10. Put one cooled cake layer on plate. Top with 1/2 c icing, spreading within 1/2" of edges. Repeat with other layers..
  11. Finish by icing the sides. Cover and chill until ready to serve..

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