Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, red velvet cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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.

Red velvet cake is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Red velvet cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have red velvet cake using 11 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Red velvet cake:

1. Make ready 1 1/2 cups white sugar
2. Prepare 2 eggs
3. Get 2 tablespoons cocoa
4. Make ready 4 tablespoons red food coloring
5. Prepare 1 teaspoon salt
6. Make ready 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
7. Prepare 1 cup buttermilk
8. Get 2 1/2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
9. Get 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
10. Make ready 1 tablespoon distilled white vinegar
11. Prepare Icing: 5 tablespoons all-purpose flour, 1 cup milk 1 cup white sugar 1 cup butter, room temperature 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

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Steps to make Red velvet cake:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease two 9-inch round pans.
2. Beat shortening and 1 1/2 cups sugar until very light and fluffy. Add eggs and beat well.
3. Make a paste of cocoa and red food coloring; add to creamed mixture. Mix salt, 1 teaspoon vanilla, and buttermilk together. 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. Don't beat or stir the batter after this point.
4. Pour batter into prepared pans. Bake in preheated oven until a tester inserted into the cake comes out clean, about 30 minutes. Cool cakes completely on wire rack.
5. To Make Icing: Cook 5 tablespoons flour and milk over low heat till thick, stirring constantly. Let cool completely! While mixture is cooling, beat 1 cup sugar, butter, and 1 teaspoon vanilla until light and fluffy. Add cooled flour mixture and beat until frosting is a good spreading consistency. Frost cake layers when completely cool

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. UK readers: 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.

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