Recipe: Delicious Red Velvet Cake

Red Velvet Cake.

You can have Red Velvet Cake using 16 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Red Velvet Cake

1. You need 190 gms of maida.
2. Prepare 1 of & 1/2 tbsp cocoa powder.
3. It's 125 gms of sugar.
4. You need 85 gms of butter.
5. Prepare 200 gms of buttermilk.
6. Prepare 1 tsp of baking powder.
7. You need 1/4 tsp of baking soda.
8. It's 2 tsp of vanilla essence.
9. It's 1.5 tsp of red gel food colour.
10. Prepare 1 tsp of white vinegar.
11. Prepare of Icing.
12. It's 1/2 cup of Rich's gold whipping cream.
13. Prepare 190 gms of cream cheese.
14. You need of Soaking syrup.
15. Prepare 3 tbsp of water.
16. Prepare 1.5 tbsp of sugar.

Red Velvet Cake instructions

1. Soft together maida, cocoa powder, baking soda and baking powder and set aside. Cream the butter and sugar till light in texture. To the butter add the buttermilk, vanilla, red food colour and mix well. Add the sifted flour and vinegar and mix everything well..
2. Pour the batter in a greased and lined cake tin and bake at 180°C for 40 to 45 minutes or till a toothpick inserted comes out clean. Let the cake cool down..
3. Preparing the icing. Beat the cream till you get stiff peaks. Mix icing sugar with cream cheese and whip it well so that it is smooth and lump free. Fold in the whipped cream. Set aside in the refrigerator..
4. Assembling the cake. Cut out the top crust to get a flat top. Cut the cake with the help of a thread or knife into 3 sections. Crumble the cut out crust and save for garnishing..
5. On a cake board apply little cream and place one slice of the cake. Apply some soaking syrup with the help of a brush. Spread the cream cheese icing with the help of a palate knife. Repeat for all the 3 layers. Cover the entire cake with cream cheese icing and garnish using the crumbled cake. Enjoy!.