Easiest Way to Make Perfect Red velvet cake

Easiest Way to Make Perfect Red velvet cake Delicious, fresh and tasty.

Red velvet cake. This Red Velvet cake was definitely not what I expected. It could be that I have no experience with Red Velvet cake but with this recipe the cake was much to heavy. The Icing was bland and honestly tasted like flour.

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.

You can cook Red velvet cake using 20 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Red velvet cake

1. It’s of Cake.

2. Prepare 1 1/2 cup of sugar.

3. Prepare 2 of eggs.

4. You need 2 1/2 cup of flour.

5. You need 1 1/2 cup of vegetable oil.

6. You need 1 cup of buttermilk.

7. It’s 1 tbsp of vanilla.

8. It’s 1 tbsp of baking soda.

9. It’s 1 tbsp of vinegar.

10. It’s 2/3 oz of red food coloring.

11. Prepare 2 tbsp of cocoa.

12. Prepare 1/2 lb of butter.

13. It’s of Frosting.

14. Prepare 1 lb of powdered sugar.

15. You need 8 oz of cream cheese.

16. It’s 4 oz of butter.

17. Prepare 1 tbsp of vanilla.

18. You need 1 1/4 cup of chopped pecans.

19. You need of Decoration.

20. You need 1 of chocolate bar.

In a large bowl, sift together the flour, sugar, baking soda, salt, and cocoa powder.

This is the recipe to make red velvet cake, i have to say after so many years of baking this is a r star rating.

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Red velvet cake step by step

1. Mix eggs sugar oil and vinegar until creamy.

2. Add flour and baking soda together while beating mixture.

3. Add cocoa and butter.

4. Add buttermilk vanilla and coloring while stirring.

5. Bake 3 layers at 350°F.

6. For icing: Melt cream cheese and butter slowly at low temperature.

7. Add sugar, pecans, and vanilla.

8. Mix and spread between cake layers finishing by covering all layers.

9. For Decoration: Use a cheese grater and shred the chocolate bar on top of the cake.

In our family no one thinks it's Christmas without this Red Velvet Cake recipe.

It's different than other Red Velvet Cakes I've tasted over the years, since this one tastes only mildly chocolate and the icing is as light as snow.

A moist, classic Red Velvet Cake!!

Made from scratch, and surprisingly easy when a few simple steps are followed - watch how to make it in the recipe video.

This has a soft "velvet" texture, just like what you get from top end fine bakeries, and is topped with soft, cream cheese frosting.