Red velvet cake ... Follow the precise steps, and learn how to make a recipe of delicious cakes in bright and grainy red color, try the wonderful red velvet cake and serve it on family occasions.
Ingredients
- To prepare the cake:
- Flour: two and a half cups (sifted)
- Sugar: a cup and a half
- Cocoa powder: 2 tablespoons
- Baking powder: a teaspoon
- Salt: a teaspoon
- Baking soda: a teaspoon
- Red food coloring: 2 tablespoons
- Butter: half a cup
- Eggs: 2 tablets
- Milk: a cup (liquid)
- Vanilla extract: a teaspoon
- Red vinegar: a tablespoon
- White vinegar: a teaspoon
- To prepare the cream:
- Butter: 1 cup (at room temperature)
- Cream cheese: 650 g (or as needed)
- Vanilla extract: 2 teaspoons
- Powdered sugar: 5 and a quarter cups
How To Prepare
- Heat the oven at 180°C.
- To prepare the cake: Prepare a mixing bowl, put milk and red vinegar in it, mix the ingredients well and set the mixture aside.
- In another bowl, sift the salt, baking powder, and flour, and set the ingredients aside.
- Using a small bowl, mix cocoa and red food coloring until you have a paste-like mixture.
- Using an electric mixer, mix the butter and sugar for 2-3 minutes.
- Start adding eggs one at a time, whisking between each addition.
- Add the vanilla extract, cocoa paste and food coloring and mix.
- Add one third of the dry ingredients/flour, baking powder and salt and mix.
- Pour in half of the milk and a third of the dry ingredients and mix.
- Pour the remaining amount of milk and dry ingredients and mix.
- Mix white vinegar with baking soda and add the mixture to the cake mixture and mix.
- Put the mixture in a cake tin lined with parchment paper and bake for 20 minutes.
- To prepare the cream: Put the cream cheese, butter and vanilla in the electric mixer, and beat the ingredients on a slow speed first, then increase the speed and beat for 2 minutes.
- Gradually add the powdered sugar, mixing until the mixture is homogeneous.
- When the cake is ripe, cut it in half, put the first layer on a serving plate, spread a layer of cream, then place the second layer of cake on top of the cream layer, and spread a layer of cream on the second layer of cake.
- Put the cake in the fridge for about two hours before serving.