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Red Velvet Cake

Feb-04-2016
Binjal Pandya
15 minutes
Prep Time
40 minutes
Cook Time
4 People
Serves
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ABOUT Red Velvet Cake RECIPE

Red Velvet Cake is a cake with either a dark red, bright red or red-brown color. It is traditionally prepared as a layer cake topped with cream cheese or icing. Common ingredients include buttermilk, butter, cocoa, and flour for the cake, beetroot or red food coloring for the color.

Recipe Tags

  • Egg-free
  • Medium
  • Others
  • Fusion
  • Whisking
  • Baking
  • Dessert
  • Egg Free

Ingredients Serving: 4

  1. 2 ½ cups All-Purpose flour/Cake Flour
  2. 2 cups Powdered Sugar
  3. 3 tbsp Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
  4. ½ tsp Baking Soda
  5. 1 tsp Baking powder
  6. 1 tsp Salt
  7. 1 tbsp Flex Seeds Powder
  8. 1 ½ cups Butter Milk
  9. ½ cup Vegetable Oil
  10. 2 tbsp Melted butter
  11. 3 tsp Vanilla Extract
  12. 2 tbsp White Vinegar
  13. ½ tsp Powdered Red Food Color or 1 tbsp Liquid Red Color
  14. Oil + flour for Greasing and Dusting
  15. For Cream Frosting:
  16. 250g full-fat Cream Cheese
  17. ¼ cup Unsalted Melted Butter
  18. 2 cups Powder Sugar
  19. 2 tbsp Cream or Milk
  20. 1 tsp Vanilla extract
  21. Other ingredients • ¼ cup Pomegranate and some Raspberry for Garnishing

Instructions

  1. For Red Velvet Cake: Preheat an oven on 350F/180C Sieve the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cocoa powder, salt and sugar into the mixing bowl.
  2. Add flex seeds powder, oil, melted butter and mix it well, now add little by little butter milk into the mixture, mix it well and make smooth batter without lumps.
  3. Add vanilla extract, red food color, vinegar and mix it well for 3-4 minutes. Now take 2 baking trays (used 6 inch baking trays) and grease it with oil and dust it with flour.
  4. Pour equal quantity of the batter in both greased tray and bake it for 30-32 minutes or till done.
  5. While baking after 30-32 minutes check the cake by inserting the toothpick, if toothpick comes out clean means your cake is properly baked, if not then bake it again for 4-5 minutes and check it.
  6. Once done let it be cool down for 3-4 minutes, then remove it on the cooling rack and allow it cool down completely.
  7. For Cream cheese frosting: In another mixing bowl, add cream cheese (soften in room temperatures), melted butter and mix it well for 3-4 minutes till foamy and soft.
  8. Add powder sugar, vanilla extract, milk or cream and mix it well, stir it for 3-4 minutes, make soft and foamy frosting.
  9. Assembling, Frosting and Garnishing: Remove the thin slice top of the both cake using sharp knife and make flat surface. Now take one cake, evenly spread the frosting over the cake surface and sprinkle some pomegranate.
  10. Then place the second cake on it, again spread the frosting over the cake surface, sprinkle some pomegranate and Raspberries as per your choice.
  11. Red Velvet cake with cream frosting is ready. Refrigerate it for 15-20 minutes for chilling, then serve it.

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Rajiv Kumar
May-22-2017
Rajiv Kumar   May-22-2017

Thanks for this Great recipe, my all friends like it very much. We make it at our each weekend party. Many time we avail of such Awesome cakes from the site : http://www.cakengifts.in/cake-delivery-in-gurgaon http://www.cakengifts.in/cake-delivery-in-sector23-gurgaon http://www.cakengifts.in/cake-delivery-in-sushant-lok-gurgaon http://www.cakengifts.in/cake-delivery-in-mg-road-gurgaon http://www.cakengifts.in/cake-delivery-in-sector5-gurgaon

Mona Dudeja
Feb-14-2017
Mona Dudeja   Feb-14-2017

it could be pure red if we dont put the coco powder...

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