Here the recipe to bake a yummy red velvet cake!
Red Velvet Cake ingredients
- 1 cup buttermilk.
- 1 stick unsalted butter at room temperature.
- 1 ½ cups granulated sugar.
- 2 cups all-purpose flour.
- 2 eggs.
- ¾ cup cocoa powder.
- 1 teaspoon baking powder.
- 1 teaspoon baking soda.
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract.
- 1 tablespoon red food coloring.
Cream cheese frosting ingredients
- 2 sticks unsalted butter.
- 16 oz cream cheese at room temperature.
- 2 ½ cups confectioners’ sugar.
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract.
You can make your own buttermilk adding 1 tablespoon of white vinegar to 1 cup of whole milk. After 15 minutes, you’ll have buttermilk.
Directions for cake
- Preheat oven to 355º F.
- Stir in a bowl flour, baking powder, baking soda and cocoa powder. and mix using a whisk.
- In a different bowl mix butter with sugar until creamy.
- Add the vanilla extract and eggs, one a time, and beat until mix.
- Add red food coloring to buttermilk. Be careful with stains! It’s very hard to leave from clothes!
- Add dry ingredients from the first bowl (flour, baking powder, baking soda and cocoa powder) in 3 times, alternating with buttermilk, and beat.
- Put in a round cake pan. or in two small round cake pans.
- Put in the oven about 40 to 45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the cake tests clean.
- Let cool.
Directions for frosting
- Beat the cream cheese until creamy in a bowl.
- Add butter and vanilla extract and beat.
- Finally, add confectioners’ sugar and mix well.
Finishing
- Cut the cake horizontally in 2 pieces. If you’ve baked it in two cake pans, don’t have to cut it.
- Spread the top of first layer with frosting using a spatula. Add the second layer and spread more frosting. Then, spread the cream cheese frosting to cover the entire cake.
- Keep refrigerate for 4 hours.
Suggestions
You can bake cupcakes instead a cake. Put a cupcake pan and fill paper cupcake liners with the batter using two spoons. Put in the oven for 20 to 25 minutes or until a inserted toothpick tests clean. Use cream cheese frosting to decorate cupcakes.