Recipe: Yummy Red Velvet cake

Red Velvet cake.

You can have Red Velvet cake using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Red Velvet cake

1. Prepare 1/2 cup of butter or ½ cup margarine.
2. You need 1 1/2 cup of sugar.
3. It's 1 tablespoon of vanilla extract.
4. It's 3 of large eggs.
5. Prepare of Red food colour.
6. It's 2 1/2 cup of all purpose flour.
7. Prepare 2 tablespoons of cocoa.
8. You need 1 teaspoon of baking soda.
9. You need 1/2 teaspoon of salt.
10. It's 1 cup of buttermilk.
11. It's of Powdered sugar.
12. You need 1 cup of chopped pecans (optional).

Red Velvet cake step by step

1. Beat butter at medium speed with a mixer until creamy gradually add sugar, vinegar and vanilla beat well..
2. Add eggs 1at a time, beating until blended after each addition.
3. Add food colour, beating until combined.
4. Combine flour and the next 3 ingredients; add the butter mixture alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour mixture..
5. Beat at low speed until blended after each addition.
6. Pour into greased and floured cake pan.
7. Bake at 350°c for 20-22 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center out clean..
8. Cool in pans on wire racks for 5 minutes; remove from pans and cool on wire racks..