Simple Buttercream: Also known as American buttercream, this one is essentially a combination of fat (i.e.
RED VELVET HOW TO
How to make Red Velvet Cake – quick tutorial video! Red Velvet Cake for UK readers – please ensure you read Notes 7 and 9. If you’ve never tried it before, you’re in for a real treat! – Nagi x Putting aside fiddly fancy decorated cakes, Red Velvet Cake is surely one of the most striking and stunning cakes around. 😉 As long as you do that, it’s actually easy to make, no more difficult than an ordinary sponge cake. All you have to do is ensure you measure the ingredients properly, rather than just eye-balling it. I promise you, there is nothing tricky about this cake. I think it looks pretty, don’t you? But that’s purely optional! I like to crumble the off cuts and use it to decorate the cake. And to make the layers nice and neat, I cut the dome top off. I bake the layers in 2 separate tins, but if you don’t have two tins, you can make one big one and cut the cake in half. I’ve tried better value store-brand cream cheese before. There is no substitute for Philadelphia Cream Cheese for the frosting. Not for this recipe – sorry! It is just not the same – part of the reason mine was “zara zara”. Buttermilk – For almost every other baking recipe that I make using buttermilk, I say that you can substitute with lemon juice + milk which, when left for 5 minutes, curdles to have the same effect as using buttermilk. It’s enough to hold the cake together just fine – any more than 2, and find the cake begins to start tasting “eggy” andģ. Only 2 eggs – I’ve seen some recipes call for up to 5 eggs. However, if you really can’t find it, please see the notes for a substitute Ģ. Cake flour – it’s a must! It’s key to achieving that soft silky sponge, just like what you get from posh bakeries. There are 3 more specific things about this recipe which might be a bit different to other Red Velvet recipes you have seen, but there’s a reason for it.ġ. It is not the same if you use only one of them. The cake tastes buttery and moist, because it has butter in it for flavour, and oil for moisture. Give it a few years, it will become a firm favourite soon! It’s wildly popular in America and there’s a cult following in Australia. It’s more like a cross between a vanilla and chocolate cake with a very subtle tang from buttermilk. And it is generously smothered in a fluffy cream cheese frosting. This cake is softer than most, “velvet-like”, and the chocolate taste is actually quite mild. Red Velvet Cake is not just a chocolate cake with red food colouring added. I gasped, indignant, and grabbed a spoon to shovel a bite into my mouth, ready to argue. The Japanese language has a handful of words which sound like what it means. “Zara-zara” being a perfect example.
What the….? Zara-zara? What on earth does that mean? “The sponge is zara-zara”, my mother declared on first bite. To tell you the honest truth, the reason I made it so many times in recent weeks is because my original recipe got a “so-so” response from the two toughest taste-testers I know: my mother and brother. There is something so satisfying about making something as pretty as Red Velvet Cake. 😉īesides, I’m really enjoying baking at the moment. rest of the world!!) measures means that I’m a mad baker, I’ll take that title. If getting this cake exactly to my taste, as close as I can get it to the cakes you get from posh bakeries, and ensuring it works using both US and metric (i.e. “FIVE TIMES?!!”, I hear you exclaim (out loud or in your head). This Red Velvet Cake has been taste tested and given a big thumbs up by many people because it’s a rather large cake and I’ve made it 5 times in the last two weeks. Red Velvet Cake recipe – tried and tested favourite! This iconic cake has a soft “velvet” texture, just like what you get from the best top end fine bakeries, and is topped with soft, cream cheese frosting.Īfter Red Velvet Cupcakes? Here they are! UK readers: Please read note 7. A moist, classic Red Velvet Cake!! Made from scratch, and surprisingly easy when a few specific, simple steps are followed.
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