Recipe of Super Quick Homemade Red Velvet Cake

Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, red velvet cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Red Velvet Cake is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Red Velvet Cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

Historically, red velvet cake was just chocolate cake tinted red from the acid in cocoa powder, not from food coloring. 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.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook red velvet cake using 11 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Red Velvet Cake:

1. Take 3 cup sugar
2. Prepare 5 eggs
3. Get 2 tsp vanilla extract
4. Get 1 1/2 cup Crisco
5. Make ready 2 tsp vinegar
6. Take 1/3 cup Cocoa
7. Make ready 3 cup All purpose flour
8. Make ready 1 tsp baking powder
9. Prepare 1/4 tsp salt
10. Make ready 1 cup sour cream
11. Prepare 2 oz Red food color

Add the flour to the batter, alternating with the buttermilk mixture, mixing just until incorporated. Mix soda and vinegar and gently fold into cake batter. The cake recipe part is fine, but it's not a true red velvet cake if it's frosted with buttercream frosting. A true red velvet cake will always have a cream cheese frosting!

Steps to make Red Velvet Cake:

1. Preheat oven to 350°
2. Cream together Crisco, eggs, vanilla, sugar
3. Blend in vinegar, cocoa & red food color
4. Mix together flour, salt & baking powder
5. Add one cup of flour mixture & mix 1 minute
6. Next add cup of sour cream, mix one minute
7. Add last cup of flour & mix until everything is blended - scrape down sides of bowl
8. Grease & flour a bundt pan. Add mixture & bake for 1 hour to 1 hour 10 minutes depending on oven
9. Remove from oven & let cool for 10 minutes
10. Invert onto cake plate. Once cool, drizzle with cream cheese frosting
11. Frosting: Mix together 1 stick of butter, 1 block of cream cheese, 1 box of powdered sugar & 2 tsp of vanilla extract. Pecans optional.

The cake recipe part is fine, but it's not a true red velvet cake if it's frosted with buttercream frosting. A true red velvet cake will always have a cream cheese frosting! This is similar to the original recipe that began the red velvet craze. It was developed by the Adams Extract company in Gonzales, Tex. Classic Red Velvet Cake This ruby-red cake with it's lovely cream cheese frosting has become my "signature dessert." I can't go to any family function without it.

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