Red Velvet Cake by Seline(The Cake Girl). Make this Valentine's Day special and delicious! With a red velvet chocolate cake prepared, decorated and served with smiles by the lovely and talented Sarah in the kitchen. This Red Velvet Bundt Cake recipe was originally published in The Pioneer Woman's first cookbook: The Pioneer Woman Cooks.

A Red Velvet Cake is instantly recognizable with its bright red color offset by a white Cream Cheese Frosting. There are many theories as to its origin. This extra step makes the spreading of the frosting a much easier task, as a freshly baked cake is quite fragile and when you try to spread the frosting. You can have Red Velvet Cake by Seline(The Cake Girl) using 11 ingredients and 17 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Red Velvet Cake by Seline(The Cake Girl)

1. You need 250 gms of flour all purpose.
2. It's 113 g of butter.
3. You need 300 gms of sugar.
4. It's 240 ml of buttermilk.
5. Prepare 15 gms of unsweetened cocoa powder.
6. Prepare 1/2 tsp of salt.
7. It's 1/2 tsp of baking soda.
8. It's 1/2 tsp of distilled white vinegar.
9. Prepare 2 of eggs.
10. Prepare 1 tsp of vanilla.
11. It's 2 tsp of red foodcolouring.

This red velvet cake is based off of the recipe for The Most Amazing Chocolate Cake so there are some similarities, but there are also several key differences that gives Red Velvet Cake its unique flavor The original Red Velvet Cake only had a slight red color to it which came from pureed beets. This red velvet cake is moist and delicious with a toasted marshmallow filling and a chocolate sour cream frosting. It was all thanks to the red velvet cupcake and cake at Susie Cakes that was about five blocks from my house in Santa Monica. I honestly think I got a red velvet cupcake every week.

Red Velvet Cake by Seline(The Cake Girl) step by step

1. Measure flour,salt and cocoa powder and sieve them.
2. Beat butter and sugar until abit fluffy.
3. Add eggs one at a time.
4. Pour milk in a measuring jug and add 1tspn lemon juice to make buttermilk.
5. Add the red colouring to the buttermilk.
6. Mix the flour and milk in batches of three,starting with flour and end with flour to get perfect results.
7. Pre - heat the oven to 360f/180°.
8. Line two equal size baking pans.
9. Pour an equal mixture of the batter on the two pans.
10. Put in the oven to bake for 40min until when a toothpick,knife or skewer is inserted comes out clean.
11. Frosting.
12. To get the real red velvet taste,a bit of cream cheese is perfect.
13. 500ml cream cheese 200ml sour cream 150gms icing sugar.
14. Whip them together to. Get a smooth mixture.
15. Use a 300ml chilled water and 300gms whipped cream powder to get stiff peaks to decorate the remaining cake.
16. Make crumbs from the trimmings of the cake and use it to garnish.
17. N/B- the bowl and whisk to be used to whip cream,should be put in the refrigerator to chill for better results..

Red Velvet Cake is one of those classic recipes that get requested over and over. That rich red color is stunning and paired with a cream cheese frosting, you can't really go wrong. I love learning the history behind timeless recipes like this, to find out how they originated, how they became popular, and how. Red Velvet Cake is a CLASSIC recipe, made from sour cream and buttermilk for an incredibly moist and velvety texture, along with cocoa powder and food coloring to help give it the signature red color. Make this cake with my cream cheese frosting, and top with chocolate shavings, cookie crumbs.