Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, red velvet cake with homemade icing. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Red Velvet Cake with Homemade Icing is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Red Velvet Cake with Homemade Icing is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

This is a traditional Red Velvet Cake icing, sometimes called Waldorf-Astoria Frosting. Other versions use butter in place of Crisco, or have slightly more flour. I prefer the butter variety, but this version is stable at room temperature due to the Crisco, and the flavor trade-off is worth it when space in the fridge is at a premium.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook red velvet cake with homemade icing using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Red Velvet Cake with Homemade Icing:

1. Prepare Cake batter
2. Take 1 Betty Crocker Cake Mix
3. Prepare 2 Medium Eggs
4. Get 200 ml water
5. Make ready 150 ml vegetable oil
6. Get Icing
7. Prepare 1 Better Crocker Vanilla ButterCream Style Icing
8. Make ready Or Homemade Icing
9. Make ready 500 g soft cheese
10. Take 300 ml double cream
11. Make ready 170 g icing sugar (alter to taste)
12. Prepare Drop vanilla essence

Using a handheld or stand mixer fitted with a paddle attachment, beat the butter and sugar together on. Red velvet cake with what is most likely the original frosting, ermine frosting. One bite, and you will save your cream cheese frosting for carrot cake! In a large bowl, sift together the flour, sugar, baking soda, salt, and cocoa powder.

Steps to make Red Velvet Cake with Homemade Icing:

1. Preheat oven to 180*C or Gas Mark 4. In a large bowl, mix the eggs, oil, water and cake mix for 2-3 minutes until nicely blended and thick consistency
2. Place batter in desired tins nicely greased. You can choose to use one large tin and slice it in half, or 2 even size tins. [I did it in one tin and cut the batter in half]. Bake in oven for 28-32 minutes and leave aside.
3. In a separate bowl, whisk the soft cheese until nicely soft. Once done, add in your icing sugar and whisk. Using another bowl, whisk the double cream and gently fold into the soft cheese. Add drop of vanilla essence and whisk final time for about 30 seconds, where the mix should be soft and fluffy.
4. Once the cake is cooled, cut into 2 (if one batter was made) and apply your icing however you want.
5. Top with fruits or leave plain and allow to set in fridge for 2-3 hours before eating

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. Being from the south my recipe options were endless. I swear everybody in my family has their way of making red velvet cake and to them, it is the best!! Hooooowever, I still knew that the perfect red velvet cake was still out there somewhere.

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