Moist red velvet cake. *TRIED AND TRUE* Southern red velvet cake made from scratch the old-fashioned way. Easy recipe with homemade cream cheese icing. "Easy, moist red velvet cake recipe full of Southern charm with a secret ingredient! Frosted with Cream Cheese frosting!" Red velvet cake is the queen of all layer cakes. The "I can't quite put my finger on the flavor" cake. It's the sweet marriage of buttermilk and vanilla with a little cocoa Not only is the flavor outstanding, red velvet cake's texture is worth writing home about.
It's dense and soft with a moist and velvety crumb.
How to make red velvet cake moist?
Different people swear by different ingredients that result in the moistest cake.
You can cook Moist red velvet cake using 14 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Moist red velvet cake
- Prepare 2 1/2 cups of sifted all purpose flour.
- You need 1 teaspoon of baking powder.
- It's 1 teaspoon of salt.
- Prepare 2 tablespoons of cocoa powder.
- Prepare 1/2 cup of unsalted butter (room temp).
- You need 1 1/2 cups of sugar.
- It's 2 of eggs (room temp).
- Prepare 1 of bottle[2oz] red food coloring.
- You need 1 cup of buttermilk (rom temp).
- You need 1 teaspoon of baking soda.
- You need 1 teaspoon of white vinegar.
- You need 1 teaspoon of vanilla.
- It's 3/4 cup of milk.
- It's 1/2 cup of sugar.
Mine is full fat sour cream. Red velvet cake ingredients: Should I use oil, butter or shortening? Absolutely the best Red Velvet Cake I have ever put in my mouth. I also added another tablespoon of cocoa powder and mixed my ingredients.
Moist red velvet cake step by step
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Sift together flour, baking powder, salt in a bowl.
- In a small bowl mix the cocoa and food coloring to form a paste..
- In a large bowl mix with a hand mixer. the butter and sugar until fluffy..
- Beat in eggs one at a time then beat in the cocoa paste.
- Add 1/3 flour mixture to butter mixture,.
- Then 1/2 buttermilk, 1/3 flour mixture, second half butter milk then final 1/3 flour mixture.
- In small bowl mix vinegar and baking soda (it should fizz).
- Mix baking soda mixture into cake batter. mix well then quickly divide into cake pans.
- Grease your pan with a cooking spray or butter and Bake 30 - 35 minutes OR until a table knife inserted comes out clean. and leave to cool..
- GLAZE- mix 2/3 cup milk with 1/2 cup sugar in saucepan. bring to boil..
- Then pour and spread over the cooled cake. (it makes the even more moist and gives a nice base for frosting)..
This is the BEST red velvet bundt cake recipe.if not the best red velvet cake recipe. It's incredibly moist and coated in a silky cream cheese glaze. By adding buttermilk and vinegar to the batter, it activates the baking soda to create this fluffy but "velvety" texture. Every year around Christmas time, my family honors a tradition that has founded many families like mine; we gather around a table with one food item from each person and feast. A Red Velvet Cake is instantly recognizable with its bright red color offset by a white Cream Cheese Frosting.