How to Make Yummy Red Velvet Cake with Homemade Icing

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Use gel or paste food coloring for the most vivid color. Cream together the shortening and sugar. Add the cocoa and red color and mix again. You can have Red Velvet Cake with Homemade Icing using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Red Velvet Cake with Homemade Icing

1. Prepare of Cake batter.
2. You need 1 of Betty Crocker Cake Mix.
3. Prepare 2 of Medium Eggs.
4. Prepare 200 ml of water.
5. It's 150 ml of vegetable oil.
6. You need of Icing.
7. Prepare 1 of Better Crocker Vanilla ButterCream Style Icing.
8. Prepare of Or Homemade Icing.
9. It's 500 g of soft cheese.
10. It's 300 ml of double cream.
11. It's 170 g of icing sugar (alter to taste).
12. You need Drop of vanilla essence.

Red velvet cake is much more than vanilla cake tinted red. This recipe produces the best red velvet cake with superior buttery, vanilla, and cocoa flavors, as well as a delicious tang from buttermilk. My trick is to whip the egg whites, which guarantees a smooth velvet crumb. This is my forever favorite red velvet cake recipe.

Red Velvet Cake with Homemade Icing instructions

1. Preheat oven to 180*C or Gas Mark 4. In a large bowl, mix the eggs, oil, water and cake mix for 2-3 minutes until nicely blended and thick consistency.
2. Place batter in desired tins nicely greased. You can choose to use one large tin and slice it in half, or 2 even size tins. [I did it in one tin and cut the batter in half]. Bake in oven for 28-32 minutes and leave aside..
3. In a separate bowl, whisk the soft cheese until nicely soft. Once done, add in your icing sugar and whisk. Using another bowl, whisk the double cream and gently fold into the soft cheese. Add drop of vanilla essence and whisk final time for about 30 seconds, where the mix should be soft and fluffy..
4. Once the cake is cooled, cut into 2 (if one batter was made) and apply your icing however you want..
5. Top with fruits or leave plain and allow to set in fridge for 2-3 hours before eating.

To assemble, place the base layer of cake on a plate, stand or board and spread with one-third of the frosting. Red velvet cake gets it's name from the red food coloring that is mixed together with cocoa powder to create this intense hue and original flavor. This is by no means a chocolate cake that is just colored red. Red velvet has it's own distinct texture and flavor that cannot even be compared to any other cake. Excellent and easy red velvet recipe - I had to go with what I had on hand so I had to use sifted all purpose flour instead of cake flour (you can also use some cornstarch in all purpose as substitute but I didn't have any of that either).