Best Red Velvet Cake Recipe

Best Red Velvet Cake Recipe

Ingredients:

All Purpose Flour / Maida - 21/4 cup / 300 grams

Sugar - 11/2 cup / 300 grams

Unsalted Butter - 1/4 cup / 60 grams

Oil - 1/4 cup / 60 ml

Eggs - 2

Cocoa Power - 2 tblspn

Red Food Colouring - 1.5 tblspn or as needed

Buttermilk - 1 cup / 240 ml

Baking Soda - 1 tsp

Vinegar - 1 tblspn (white)

Vanilla Essence - 1 tsp

Salt - 1/2 tsp

Flour Buttercream preparing three 8-inch pan, by buttering on all sides, dusting it with flour and tap off the excess flour. Set this aside.

Preheat oven to 180 degree C.

Take cocoa, food colouring powder, 1/4 cup of buttermilk and mix to a paste. Set aside.

Now take butter, oil, sugar, vanilla in a large bowl, Use a electric beater to cream this up.

Now add in eggs and cream again.

Add in cocoa food colour mix and mix well.

Add in flour, salt, buttermilk and fold gently.

Now take baking soda in a bowl, add in vinegar. It will bubble up. pour this into the batter and mix gently. This will lighten the batter.

Divide this between the cake pan and bake for 25 to 30 mins.

Remove it and let it cool comepletely

Meanwhile prepare your frosting

Spread frosting between each layer of cake, sandwich the cakes, spread frosting all around the sides and serve.

Pictorial:

Take all your ingredients

Start by preparing three cake pans

Now take your food colouring, i used this orange red colour

take it in a bowl

add in cocoa powder

i added few spoons of buttermilk to mix it up, if you are using liquid food colour, you dont have to add any buttermilk

mix well

Now take soft unsalted butter in a bowl

add in oil

and sugar

add in vanilla

use a beater to cream this up

once it is creamy

add in eggs

beat this up

now add in the cocoa food colour mix

cream again

now add in maida

Add in buttermilk..If you dont have buttermilk,
mix 1/2 cup thick yogurt with 1/2 cup of milk

salt

fold gently till mixed up

Now take baking soda in a jug

like this

pour in vinegar over it

it will bubble up

pour that bubbly liquid straight into the batter

mix gently, this will lighten up the batter

divide it between the tins

add baked

When the cake is cooling,

Now place the cake over a plate,place strips
of parchment paper on the sides of the cake

spoon some frosting over

spread it out

place another cake

spread some more frosting

place third layer

spoon some more frosting

spread it all over the sides

cover the entire cake

i made little swirls on the top

remove the strips of parchment paper

slice and serve

Put the cake in the fridge for 30 mins before slicing, 
for clean slice.