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The Recipe for Red Velvet Cake
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The Recipe for Red Velvet Cake
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 Tablespoon vinegar
1/2 cup shortening
1-1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs
2 bottles of red food coloring
3 Tablespoons cocoa
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup buttermilk
2-1/4 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Light oil and flour 2 9-inch cake pans.
Mix vinegar and baking soda in small cup. Let stand until settled.
Cream sugar, shortening, and eggs until light.
Make paste of cocoa and red food coloring. Add paste to shortening mixture. Combine.
Combine buttermilk and vanilla in a cup.
Combine salt and flour in small bowl.
Alternate adding the buttermilk mixture and the flour mixture to shortening.
Add soda and vinegar mixture to batter. Mix just until blended.
Divide batter between the prepared pans, and bake for about 30 minutes or until cake begins to pull away from the sides of the pan.
Cool on baking rack. Run a knife around the edges of the pan to loosen cake. Invert pan and remove cake. Frost as desired.
The Recipe for Boiled Frosting
Cream cheese frosting is also very popular.
Photo by LauraFries
3 Tablespoons flour
1 cup milk
1 cup granulated sugar
1 cup butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
Cook flour and milk on low heat til thick, stirring constantly. Cool.
Cream sugar, butter and vanilla until fluffy.
Add to flour-milk mixture.
Beat until frosting is consistency of whipped cream.
Spread on cake layers.
Red Velvet Cake on Wikipedia
Interesting facts and history.
Category: File - :Red velvet cake slice.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Red velvet cake
A Red velvet cake is a type of rich and sweet cake, with a distinctive dark red to bright red or red-brown color. Common ingredients include buttermilk, butter, flour, cocoa powder, and often either beets, or red food coloring. It is most popular in the Southern United States, though known in other regions. The most typical frosting for a red velvet cake is a butter roux icing also known as a cooked flour frosting. Cream cheese buttercream frostings are also popular.
Traditionalists believe that red velvet cakes must contain cocoa, although recipes are available that do not contain any chocolate flavoring.
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Chicago Metallic 6-Cup Heart Cupcake Pan
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Other Versions of Red Velvet Cake Recipe
- Southern Red Velvet Cake from Sara's Secrets on Food Network
- 3 layers and not very chocolately with a cream cheese frosting.
- Red Velvet Cake from a Mix
- Now THIS is easy.
- Red Velvet Cake from Joy of Baking
- This recipe uses butter. Also has some good explanations.
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glowchick wrote...
This is such a great cake! Thanks for sharing 5* and favorited do I can give it a try..
Posted June 02, 2009
enslavedbyfaeries wrote...
Woohoo, I am featuring red velvet cake recipes on my Twilight Vampire Party lens!! I'll be updating this weekend and I'll be sure to feature your lens. Until them I'm adding to my favorites and rolling it. Duh, next time I need a recipe I'll be checking with you first. 5*
Posted September 06, 2008
JasonE wrote...
Great lens, Bee! Red velvet cake: certainly one of my favorites! I desperately wanted a homemade one for my birthday this year, but had to settle for a store-bought red velvet cake. (Sigh . . . It wasn't the same.) I'm a sucker for any kind of chocolate cake, though.
Posted September 05, 2008
ThomasC wrote...
That is the reddest cake I have ever seen! Sounds great though! Great Lens!
ThomasC
Posted September 04, 2008
ThomasC wrote...
That is the reddest cake I have ever seen! Sounds great though! Great Lens!
ThomasC
Posted September 04, 2008
vbright105 wrote...
Why must you tempt me so with sweet delicious dessert recipes? Great lens
Posted September 04, 2008
