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 cook Red velvet cake you need 14 ingredients and just 17 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients

  1. It's of Ingredients.
  2. It's of flour.
  3. Prepare of salt.
  4. Prepare of cocoa powder.
  5. It's of beet juice.
  6. You need of unsalted butter.
  7. It's of .5 cups sugar.
  8. It's of eggs.
  9. You need of white vinegar.
  10. You need of softened cream cheese.
  11. You need of confectioner's sugar.
  12. It's of buttermilk.
  13. Prepare of vanilla extract.
  14. It's of baking soda.

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Red velvet cake step by step

  1. Preheat oven at 350° F..
  2. Lightly oil and flour round cake pan..
  3. Then mix together flour and salt in a bowl..
  4. Then in another mixing bowl add the cocoa powder, beet juice and mix together to prepare cocoa paste..
  5. In a large bowl add the butter, sugar and beat lightly,(about 2-3 minutes)..
  6. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition..
  7. Add the flour mixture(prepared above), buttermilk, vanilla, cocoa paste(prepared above) and mix all together then add vinegar, baking soda and beat well..
  8. Place the cake dough into the round cake pan and bake the cake approximately 30 minutes in preheated oven..
  9. Once cake is cooled, frost the cake..
  10. Cream cheese frosting: In a bowl mix cream cheese and butter..
  11. Then add the vanilla and confectioner's sugar and beat it well using electric mixer until light and fluffy..
  12. With a sharp knife cut the cake in 3 layers, horizontally on the plate..
  13. Using a pallete knife or spatula, spread some of the cream cheese frosting over the top of the base layer of the cake..
  14. Carefully set another layer on top and repeat same process..
  15. Top with the remaining layer and cover the entire cake with the remaining frosting..
  16. Then sprinkle red velvet cake with the cream cheese frosting cone and red velvet crumbs..
  17. Your red velvet cake is ready to be served!!!!:-).

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