Steps to Make Southern Red Velvet Cake in 30 Minutes for Beginners

Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, southern red velvet cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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Southern Red Velvet Cake is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Southern Red Velvet Cake is something which I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have southern red velvet cake using 18 ingredients and 23 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Southern Red Velvet Cake:

1. Make ready Cake
2. Take vegetable oil, for the pans
3. Get flour
4. Prepare sugar
5. Take baking soda
6. Make ready fine salt
7. Take cocoa powder
8. Prepare vegetable oil
9. Get buttermilk, at room temperature
10. Prepare eggs, at room temperature
11. Make ready red food coloring, 1 ounce (whole bottle)
12. Take white distilled vinegar
13. Make ready vanilla extract
14. Take Icing
15. Get cream cheese, softened
16. Prepare sifted confectioner's sugar
17. Make ready unsalted butter (1 cup)
18. Make ready vanilla extract

For a brighter shade of red, you can add red food coloring. Unlike red velvet, most chocolate cakes are made with baking powder and don't contain food coloring. This cake is widely considered a Southern recipe by most people although it is served in many places in the north. Popular frostings are cream cheese and butter cream.

Steps to make Southern Red Velvet Cake:

1. Preheat the oven to 350°F.
2. Lightly oil and flour three 9x1 1/2" round pans.
3. In a large bowl, sift together the flour, sugar, baking soda, salt, and cocoa powder.
4. In another large bowl, whisk together the oil, buttermilk, eggs, food coloring, vinegar, and vanilla.
5. Using a standing mixer, mix the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients until just combined and a smooth batter is formed.
6. Divide the cake batter evenly among the prepared cake pans.
7. Place the pans in the oven evenly spaced apart.
8. Bake, rotating the pans halfway through the cooking, until the cake pulls away from the side of the pans and a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 30 minutes.
9. While the cakes are baking, make the icing.
10. In a standing mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, or with a handheld electric mixer in a large bowl, mix the cream cheese, sugar, and butter on low speed until incorporated.
11. Increase the speed to high, and mix until light and fluffy, about 5 minutes. (Occasionally turn the mixer off and scrape down the sides of the bowl with a rubber spatula.)
12. Reduce the mixer speed to low.
13. Add the vanilla, raise the speed to high and mix briefly until fluffy (scrape down the bowl occasionally).
14. Story in the refrigerator until somewhat stiff before using.
15. Remove the cakes from the oven and run a knife around the edges to loosen them from the sides of the pans.
16. One at a time, invert the cakes onto a plate and then re-invert them onto a cooling rack, rounded sides up; let cool completely.
17. Frost the cake.
18. Place 1 layer, rounded side down, in the middle of a rotating cake stand.
19. Using a palette knife or offset spatula, spread some of the cream cheese frosting over the top of the cake. (Spread enough to make 1/4" to 1/2" layer.)
20. Carefully set another layer on top, rounded side down, and repeat.
21. Top with the remaining layer and cover the entire cake with the remaining frosting.
22. OPTIONAL: Sprinkle the top with toasted pecans.
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This is a moist, light and fluffy cake that is wonderful with coffee. Red velvet cake is a great addition to any holiday meal or buffet table. Red Velvet Cake is a southern classic and this is my favorite red velvet recipe. The cake layers are soft and moist with a mild chocolate flavor and a bright red hue. And the cream cheese frosting is positively delectable.

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