How to Make Red Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese Icing:
Red Velvet cake is one of my favorites. The cake is a light cocoa chocolate with lovely cream cheese frosting. It is great both as cake and as cupcakes!
Red Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese Icing
Yield:
1 cake
Prep Time:
30 minutes
Cook Time:
35 minutes
Total Time:
1 hour 5 minutes
Red velvet cake recipe for either cake or cupcakes and cream cheese frosting. Yum!
Ingredients
For the cake
- 2 ½ cups all purpose flour, sifted
- 1 ½ cups sugar
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 2 tsp cocoa powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- ½ tsp salt
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tbsp white vinegar
- ½ cup butter, softened
- 2 oz red food colouring
For the icing:
- 8 oz cream cheese, softened
- ½ lb+2 tbsp confectioner’s sugar
- ¼ cup butter, softened
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Warm up your oven to 350 degrees F and lightly oil three medium sized baking pans.
- Empty the cups of flour into a medium sized mixing bowl and stir in the cocoa powder as well as salt; set aside.
- Whisk the butter with an electric mixer, at moderate speed, until it turns fluffy.
- Crack the eggs into it, one after another, and continue to whisk until they are properly blended; set aside.
- Pour the buttermilk into a 4- cup measuring container and add a splash of vinegar to it.
- Stir in the baking soda until it the mixture starts giving out bubbles and set aside.
- Add a portion of the dry mixture into the egg-butter mixture, followed by a small portion of the buttermilk mixture, while whisking with your electric mixer at low speed.
- Continue to add the dry and buttermilk mixture alternately into the egg-butter mixture, until they are completely incorporated.
- Increase the speed of the electric mixer to medium and continue to beat the final cake batter for another couple of minutes before pouring it into the pre-greased cake pans.
- Bake the cakes in the oven for about 25 minutes at the preheated temperature.
- Place them in the wire rack and allow to cool for another 10 minutes.
- De-mold the cake and place them on separate platters; slice each cake crosswise to divide it into two equal halves
- To make the icing, whisk all its ingredients with the electric mixer until they turn smooth and gooey.
- Spread the icing on top of each halves and pipe out beautiful decorations on top of the cake.
- You can embellish it with toasted walnuts, pecans or shaved chocolate and refrigerate until the time for serving arrives.
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Last Updated on April 21, 2023 by Carleen
