Red Velvet Cake Recipe

[muddygirl]

Hi everyone,

I want to make my mum a Red Velvet cake with cream cheese frosting for her birthday. I was wondering if anyone has a good recipe? I don't think I can get hold of Dutch Cocoa anywhere here in my little corner of Australia, so that might be a problem. Also do you use liquid or paste food colouring??

Cheers,

[dugarner]

Hey Sam,

I wrote a response this morning but didn't want to snipe the thread! I always feel like I'm butting in. When I saw there was no response yet, I thought I'd put my two cents in.

I've never made red velvet cake, I don't do well with red food coloring. But I looked it up on allrecipes.com and sorted by rating to get the highest-rated recipe. I am willing to bet that it's a good one; I've never had a high-rated recipe on that site that wasn't really good.

I think that you'd be fine without dutch processed cocoa. I can't get it where I live in Louisiana, either, I always just use the regular unsweetened cocoa powder. Barefoot Contessa always says to use dutch processed, and I substitute with the regular Hershey's cocoa powder and the recipes are still delicious. There may be a subtle difference in flavor between them, or a tiny difference in the reactivity of some ingredients. But I think you'd be fine.

I would use liquid food coloring, personally, because it seems like that would distribute better in a liquid batter. I've never used the paste except when I've had to color something solid or semi-solid, like Play-Doh or fondant.

Hope this helps! I bet whatever you do will be super-yummy.

[carollee]

Sam I've never made it so I have no idea, but I looked up Recipe Finder and there was a recipe in the Women's Weekly so at least it will have metric measurements. It uses red food colouring.

Red velvet cake

Hope that helps.

[MIDA78466]

How about a recipe passed on from my grandmother. I have to say--I a m not really fond of chocolate cake but I like this one because it has the BEST frosting.

1/2 cup shortening
1 cup buttermilk
2 Tablespoon cocoa ( I just buy it from the grocery store. I think it is Hershey's)
2 eggs
1 Tablespoon vinegar
1 teaspoon baking soda
2 1/4 cup flour
2 oz. red food coloring
3/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 1/2 cup sugar.

cream together shortening, sugar, and eggs. Mix in a paste the coloring and cocoa. Add to above mixture vanilla. Pour buttermilk in cup that paste was in, stir. Add alternately with buttermilk to batter. Beat well then fold in soda and then vinegar. Bake at 330 degrees for 20 minutes then bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.

Frosting
cream 1 cup of butter (not margarine)
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup sugar

combine in sauce pan 2 tablespoon cornstarch and one cup water. Cook until thick. Cool. Add to above mixture. Beat well until creamy or fluffy (like whipped cream). Put on cold cake.

[muddygirl]

Oh Terry, that sounds yummy. Thank you.

Sarah and Carole thanks so much for your replies. I'll go check out all the recipes.

Thanks ladies

[Amson]

I've used beetroot juice for the red colouring as we don't use chemical additives here. I am looking for the recipe but can't seem to find it now. I'll post later if it turns up.

[anke]

Oh heavens, here I thought you were looking for a way to use the box mix My kids adore that cake...sorry, no recipe from me though, other than putting cherry pie filling over top of the baked cake and topping it off with whipped cream. Yum!

[sarahorton]

Saving your recipe, Terry! This is my son's favorite cake, but I've never made it from scratch before. Thanks for posting it!

[digigrandma]

sounds so GOOD!