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  • Writer's pictureManique Abayasekara

Red Velvet Cake


Ingredients

2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 teaspoon baking soda 1 teaspoon kosher salt 1 cup buttermilk, shaken 1 tablespoon liquid red food colouring or ½ tsp red food gel 1 teaspoon white vinegar 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract 1/4 lb unsalted butter, at room temperature 1 1/2 cups sugar 2 extra-large eggs, at room temperature Red Velvet Frosting, recipe follows

Method Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Butter and line a 8 inch baking tin. In a small bowl, sift together the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. In a large measuring cup, combine the buttermilk, food colouring, vinegar, and vanilla. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the butter and sugar on medium speed for 1 minute, until light. Add the eggs, one at a time, and beat until combined. With the mixer on low speed, add the dry ingredients and the wet ingredients alternately in 3 parts, beginning and ending with the dry ingredients, and mix until combined. Stir with a rubber spatula to be sure the batter is mixed.

Pour the batter into the tin and bake for 25 to 30 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in the centres comes out clean. Cool completely in the pans and frost the cake with Cream Cheese Butter Cream for Red Velvet Frosting.


Cream Cheese Butter cream recipe for Red Velvet Frosting


Ingredients


115 g Unsalted Butter (at room temperature) 226 g Cream Cheese ( room temperature) 3/4 Cups of Icing Sugar 1 Tsp. Vanilla Extract

Method Cream your butter and cream cheese on high speed for 8 minutes. At 6 minutes you want to stop it and scrape down the sides of the bowl and centre the mixture, place on high again for another 2 minutes. Add your powder sugar slowly with mixer on low, than add vanilla. Let this whip up for another 2 minutes. Buttercream should be thick but light and fluffy. If you like it sweeter than add another 1/4 cup of sugar.

After you decorate your Cake/cupcakes break a cupcake/edges of your cake and take the cake dust and decorate each cupcake as shown above.




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