Easy Red Velvet with Cream Cheese Frosting. 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. Scrape down the sides and bottom of the bowl to ensure even. Great recipe, very easy to make! I didn't have buttermilk so I subbed it out with natural yogurt and normal.
Our easy version of Red Velvet Cake starts with a cake mix and uses the "one bowl" method of combining all the ingredients at once to make the batter.
Make it even easier by purchasing a container of cream cheese frosting instead of preparing the frosting from scratch.
With red velvet you have to take it easy on the chocolate or cocoa to get a nice red color.
You can cook Easy Red Velvet with Cream Cheese Frosting using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Easy Red Velvet with Cream Cheese Frosting
- You need 150 g of Redman Super Sponge Cake Mix.
- Prepare 1 tbspn of cocoa powder.
- You need 3 of large eggs.
- It's 30 g of buttermilk.
- You need 30 g of butter, melted.
- You need of Red food coloring.
- It's of Cream Cheese Frosting.
- Prepare 1 block of Philadelphia cream cheese (250g).
- You need 6 tbspn of castor sugar (i used fine table sugar).
- It's 1/2 tsp of vanilla essence.
- Prepare 4 of tbpn whipped cream.
Cream Cheese Frosting: Beat cream cheese, softened, butter, and vanilla in large bowl until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in confectioners' sugar until smooth. Cherry Almond Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting is a lovely soft cake and great tasting. This cream cheese frosting recipe is also stiff enough to pipe a beautiful border around the top of the cake, which is exactly what I did for this cake!
Easy Red Velvet with Cream Cheese Frosting instructions
- Put in the cake mix, cocoa powder, eggs and buttermilk into mixer bowl. Whisk using medium speed for 3 minutes. Then high speed for 8-10 minutes..
- Fold in melted butter. Followed by red coloring. I used Wilton's gel..
- Scoop into cups. Bake for 10-15 minutes at 150 deg cel, depending on oven. Or till toothpick comes out clean. Once done, cool completely on cooling rack..
- Whisk cream cheese, sugar and vanilla on medium speed for 1 minute. Then high speed till sugar dissolved..
- Stir in whipped cream, flattening any air holes in the cream cheese..
- Pipe out on cooled cupcakes. I used Wilton's 2D tip..
This cake decoration screams red velvet! It's also super easy to make, and gives the cake such a classic look. Sift in half the powdered sugar and beat to combine. Use a wooden skewer and more red food coloring to decorate to your liking. And cream cheese frosting is always required when red velvet is involved.