Best Red Velvet Cake
Make moist and soft perfect red velvet cake with this recipe!
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Ingredients
Cake:
- 2 eggs, at room temperature
- 2 ½ cups cake flour, see notes
- 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon bicarbonate soda
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 190 g unsalted butter, at room temperature
- 1 ¾ cups granulated or caster sugar
- 1 teaspoon white vinegar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 ½ cups buttermilk
- A few drops of red gel food coloring
Cream cheese frosting:
- 500 g cream cheese softened
- 120 g butter, at room temperature
- 1 ½ cups powdered or icing sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1-2 tablespoons milk
- A pinch of salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180 C / 350 F. Grease and line 3, 20 cm round cake pans.
- Sift cake flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and bicarbonate soda into a large bowl. Set aside.
- Place butter and sugar in a large bowl. Using an electric hand held or stand mixer, beat for about 2 minutes, or until the mixture is light and fluffy.
- Add egg yolks, vinegar and vanilla extract. Beat again on high for about 2 minutes.
- With the mixer on low speed, add in flour mixture (2-3 additions) alternating with buttermilk, making sure the mixture is well combined between each addition.
- Add red food coloring. Beat until just combined.
- In another bowl, beat egg whites for about 3 minutes or until peaks form.
- Fold egg white mixture gently into the cake batter.
- Divide the batter among the cake pans. Bake for about 25-30 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean.
- Remove cake from oven.
- Allow to cool in the pan for about 10 minutes before turning onto a wire rack to cool completely.
- To make the cream cheese frosting, using an electric hand held or stand mixer, beat together cream cheese and butter for about 2 minutes or until smooth.
- Add sugar, vanilla extract, 1 tablespoon milk and salt. Beat again until well combined.
- Add more milk, if required, to achieve the desired consistency.
- Decorate cake with the frosting.
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Notes
- Cake flour - For DIY mixture, measure 2 and ½ cups all purpose (plain) flour and remove 5 tablespoons of flour. To this, add 5 tablespoons cornstarch (corn flour). Now you have 2 and ½ cups cake flour.
- Food coloring- Red gel is the preferred choice, but you can also use regular food coloring. For natural color, use beet powder.
Nutrition
Calories: 379kcal | Carbohydrates: 7g | Protein: 7g | Fat: 37g | Saturated Fat: 22g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 2g | Monounsaturated Fat: 10g | Trans Fat: 0.5g | Cholesterol: 142mg | Sodium: 563mg | Potassium: 191mg | Fiber: 0.5g | Sugar: 5g | Vitamin A: 1355IU | Vitamin C: 0.01mg | Calcium: 159mg | Iron: 1mg