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Red Velvet Cake

Aug-24-2016
Jutika Das
15 minutes
Prep Time
25 minutes
Cook Time
15 People
Serves
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ABOUT Red Velvet Cake RECIPE

A popular American cake layered with cream cheese frosting.

Recipe Tags

  • Valentine's Day
  • Non-veg
  • Medium
  • American
  • Baking
  • Dessert

Ingredients Serving: 15

  1. Cake flour 2 1/2 cups
  2. Castor sugar 1 1/2 cups
  3. Cocoa powder 2 tbsp
  4. Eggs 2
  5. Butter milk 1 cup
  6. Red food color 2 tbsp
  7. Vanilla essence 1 tsp
  8. Butter 115 gm
  9. Soda bicarbonate 1 tsp
  10. Vinegar 1 tsp
  11. For the frosting :
  12. Cream cheese (kraft) 400 gm
  13. Icing sugar 1 cup
  14. Whipped cream 1 cup

Instructions

  1. Sift flour and cocoa powder. Set aside.
  2. Add color to the butter milk.
  3. With an electric beater, beat sugar and butter for 2 minutes. Add an egg at a time. Continue beating till fluffy. Add vanilla.
  4. Add flour and buttermilk alternatively starting with flour. Fold gently.
  5. Combine soda and vinegar into a small bowl. Allow it to fizz. Immediately add this to the batter and fold in.
  6. Divide the batter equally into two greased baking trays.
  7. Bake in a preheated oven at 180 degree centigrade for 25 minutes. Check with a toothpick. If it comes out clean then the cake is done. If not, bake for 3 to 4 minutes more. Cool down completely.
  8. Beat the cream cheese and icing sugar for 5 minutes or until mix together. Do not over beat. Add the whipped cream and beat lightly for 2 minutes.
  9. Put a layer in between the two cakes. Coat the entire cake with frosting. Decorate as you wish.

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

Superb!!! cake , i love this recipe and thanks to you for giving this super recipe. I will try this recipe recently. Thanks!!! Other site from which we make such wonderful cakes at various occasion is : http://www.cakengifts.in/birthday-cakes http://www.cakengifts.in/anniversary-cakes http://www.cakengifts.in/celebration-cakes http://www.cakengifts.in/kids-cake http://www.cakengifts.in/cake-delivery-in-ghaziabad

Narinder Kaur
Aug-28-2016
Narinder Kaur   Aug-28-2016

how to make whipped cream

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