Recipe: Delicious Southern Red Velvet Cake

Southern Red Velvet Cake. In a large bowl, sift together the flour, sugar, baking soda, salt, and cocoa powder. Southern Red Velvet Cake But then…we had the Southern Red Velvet Cake from Gabriel's Bakery in Marietta, and we thought, "Oh, this is the best!" So for years, we would go back and forth on which was the best because we never had them both at the same time. I decided a bake-off was in order.

Noted cake authority and baker Rose Levy Beranbaum didn. The red color comes from the reaction between the cocoa powder and the acidic vinegar/buttermilk. For a brighter shade of red, you can add red food coloring. You can have Southern Red Velvet Cake using 18 ingredients and 23 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Southern Red Velvet Cake

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

Unlike red velvet, most chocolate cakes are made with baking powder and don't contain food coloring. This is an excellent red velvet cake. There is something so elegant about a red velvet cake. Maybe it's the name or that beautiful, bold red color.

Southern Red Velvet Cake instructions

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..
23. http://m.foodnetwork.com/recipes/23379.

Or maybe it's the delicate crumb and lightly chocolatey sweet taste mellow with a tad bit of tang from the buttermilk. The origin of red velvet cakes came about from the result of baking soda interacting with natural cocoa and other acids in the batter. Through the years, the red velvet craze has only continued, fueled in part by the red velvet cakes that have graced the Southern Living Christmas cover three times. Place one layer top-side down on a cake stand. Using an offset spatula, spread with a ¼-inch-thick layer of frosting.