I love this red velvet cake recipe because it also has a chocolate flavor in it and this recipe always turns out perfect. You can use cream cheese frosting with it or whipped cream. I used whipped cream for frosting and I made flowers with royal icing. If you want your cake to be even redder, increase the food coloring by one to three tablespoons. If you don’t have buttermilk then add 1tsp vinegar in 1 cup of milk and leave it for 10 minutes. Your buttermilk is ready.
Ingredients Of Red Velvet Cake
- Flour 2 -1/2 cup
- Eggs 2
- Oil 1 cup
- Cocoa 1/4 cup
- Buttermilk 1 cup
- Sugar (grind it) 1 -1/2 cup
- Red food color 1 tsp or as needed
- Vanilla essence 1 tsp
- Baking soda 1 -1/2 Tsp
- White Vinegar 2 Tsp
- Salt pinch
Method Of Red Velvet Cake
- Preheat oven and grease 2 round pans.
- In a bowl add flour, salt, and cocoa and set aside.
- Add Oil and sugar in a large bowl beat well till it is all creamy. Now add eggs one by one. beat well and add Vanilla essence and food color.
- Now add half flour alternating with buttermilk.
- Mix vinegar and soda in a small bowl and add to the batter. Mix well and pour batter into pans and bake till done.
- Cool them completely and start icing of your choice. Decorate as you like.
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Thanks for the recipe. Will give it a trial.
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A Red Velvet Cake is not a chocolate cake. The only reason cocoa is added is to interact w/ the acidic ingredients to create a reddish hue. Ermine Buttercream is the preferred frosting, and the original authentic frosting for velvet cakes. It’s the most stable of the 6 classic buttercreams – American, Ermine, French, German, Swiss, and Italian – and the most delish. It’s used in the south for 2 reasons – 1. it’s the closest in texture to whipped cream. 2. It holds up the best in the southern heat. The Pioneer Woman uses an Ermine Buttercream on many of her cakes.