Recipe: Yummy Homeade Red Velvet Cake

Homeade Red Velvet Cake. In a large bowl, sift together the flour, sugar, baking soda, salt, and cocoa powder. This Red Velvet cake was definitely not what I expected. It could be that I have no experience with Red Velvet cake but with this recipe the cake was much to heavy.

However I am willing to try it again just to make sure it was not my own fault. In our family no one thinks it's Christmas without this Red Velvet Cake recipe. It's different than other Red Velvet Cakes I've tasted over the years, since this one tastes only mildly chocolate and the icing is as light as snow. You can cook Homeade Red Velvet Cake using 17 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Homeade Red Velvet Cake

1. Prepare of cake.
2. It's 2 of eggs.
3. It's 2 1/2 cup of all-purpose flour.
4. You need 1 1/2 cup of Sugar.
5. It's 2 cup of vegetable oil.
6. You need 3 tbsp of cocoa.
7. Prepare 1 tsp of salt.
8. You need 1 tsp of baking soda.
9. You need 3 tbsp of red food coloring.
10. Prepare 1 cup of buttermilk.
11. You need 1 tsp of vinegar.
12. Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
13. You need of icing.
14. Prepare 1 box of 10x Powdered sugar.
15. You need 1 stick of butter.
16. You need 8 oz of cream cheese.
17. You need 1 cup of chopped pecans.

In a small bowl, cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the sour cream, egg, food coloring, vinegar and vanilla. Combine the flour, cocoa, baking soda and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk. In a large bowl using a hand mixer (or in the bowl of a stand mixer), beat butter and sugar.

Homeade Red Velvet Cake instructions

1. Grease and lightly flour 2 8x2inch pans or line 2 12 cup muffin pans with cupcake liners..
2. Preheat oven to 350°.
3. Mix food coloring and cocoa together. Add vinegar stir and set to side.
4. Sift flour,salt,and soda together and set to side..
5. Cream Sugar and Oil. Add eggs one at a time.
6. Add food coloring mixture to egg mixture and mix well.
7. Alternately add flour mixture and butter milk to egg mixture and mix well.
8. Add vanilla extract mix well.
9. Pour bake into baking pans and bake on center rack for 25-30 minutes (20-25 for cupcakes).
10. Allow to completely cool before icing.
11. Mix cream chesse butter and powdered sugar until smooth add pecans.
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