Recipe: Tasty Red velvet cake

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Sift together the flour, cocoa, bicarbonate of soda, baking powder and salt. Red velvet is a wonderful chocolate cake alternative, something a little different and is perfect for any celebration. And unlike a lot of chocolate sponge recipes, which have a tendency to dry out quite quickly, I can safely say that this stays moist and still tastes fresh a few days later, making it a perfect cake to make in advance. You can cook Red velvet cake using 7 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Red velvet cake

1. It's 1/2 cup of butter.
2. You need 3/4 cup of caster sugar.
3. It's of Red gel.
4. You need 3 of eggs.
5. It's 1 tsp of vanilla essence.
6. Prepare 1 cup of butter milk.
7. Prepare 2 of n 1/4 cups flour.

Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. A moist, classic Red Velvet Cake!! Made from scratch, and surprisingly easy when a few simple steps are followed - watch how to make it in the recipe video. This has a soft "velvet" texture, just like what you get from top end fine bakeries, and is topped with soft, cream cheese frosting.

Red velvet cake step by step

1. Preheat the oven to 180°.grease the tin and line with parchment paper.
   
2. Cream butter and sugar until pale and fluffy.
   
3. Add the eggs one by one and beat until each is completely mixed.add vanilla and keep whisking.
4. Add the red gel and whisk.
5. Add buttermilk and flour alternating in three sections.dont overmix.put the mixture in the tin and pat it.
   
6. Bake at 160 for 40 minutes or until the toothpick comes out clean.

UK readers: Cream the butter and sugar. Beat in the eggs, then add the cocoa powder and the food colour. Beat in the flour and buttermilk, alternately, one-third at a time. Red velvet cake is a classic chocolate layer cake with a striking reddish-brown sponge. These days the sponge is most likely to be coloured using food colouring but originally it was created by using 'undutched' or natural cocoa powder which, along with vinegar, causes a reaction which turns the sponge red.