Recipe: Perfect Red velvet cake

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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 3 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Red velvet cake

1. Prepare 2 cups of all purpose flour.

2. It’s 1 tsp of salt.

3. Prepare 1 tsp of baking powder.

4. Prepare of I tsp cocoa powder.

5. Prepare 3/4 of butter or oil.

6. It’s 1 1/2 cup of sugar.

7. Prepare 1 ounce of red food coloring.

8. It’s 2 of eggs.

9. It’s of I cup buttermilk.

10. It’s 1 tsp of baking soda.

11. It’s 1 tsp of vinegar.

12. Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla.

13. It’s of Frosting.

14. Prepare 1 (8 oz) of bar cream cheese softened.

15. It’s of (1/2 cup) stick of butter.

16. It’s 2 tsp of vanilla.

17. It’s 3 cups of powdered sugar.

18. Prepare of Topping for cake.

19. It’s 3/4 cup of milk.

20. It’s 1/2 cup of sugar.

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 instructions

1. Put flour, baking powder, salt, and cocoa powder in small bowl and stir. In large bowl cream butter and sugar with mixer, and eggs one at a time mixing well after each. Add red food coloring to butter mixture and mix well. Place buttermilk and soda in small bowl and mix well with with spoon. Alternately add buttermilk mixture, and flour mixture to large bowl and beat until combined. Mix in vanilla and vinegar. Bake at 350° for 30 minutes or until done..

2. For frosting beat cream cheese and butter until creamy. Add vanilla and powder sugar, beat until light and fluffy with mixer..

3. Before adding frosting bring sugar and milk to a boil to dissolve sugar, then poke holes in cake adding sugar and milk mixture evenly on both. Let cool, then frost cake with frosting..

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.