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Simple Red Velvet Cake
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Red Velvet Cake by Mare
Prep Time
15 mins
Cook Time
30 mins
Total Time
45 mins
 
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Servings: 12 people
Ingredients
  • INGREDIENTS**Red Velvet Cake**
  • 1 cup butter (2 cubes, at room temperature)
  • 1-1/2 cups sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/4 cup cocoa powder
  • 1 1- oz. bottle red food coloring
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 1 cup buttermilk
  • 2-1/4 cups flour
  • 1-1/2 teaspoons baking soda
  • 1 tablespoon vinegar
  • **Cooked Buttercream Frosting**
  • 5 tablespoons cake flour
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1 cup 2 cubes butter, at room temp
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla
Instructions
  1. INSTRUCTIONS
  2. **Red Velvet Cake**

    Cream the butter and sugar on medium speed until light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each addition.

  3. Add cocoa powder and slowly add food coloring to butter mixture while mixing on low speed until well combined.
  4. Mix salt, vanilla, and buttermilk together. Add to butter mixture alternately with flour until well combined.
  5. Mix baking soda and vinegar and fold into batter by hand until well combined.
  6. Pour batter into two 9-inch greased and floured cake pans. Bake at 350ºF for 30 min or until toothpick comes out clean. Cool completely before frosting.
  7. **Cooked Buttercream Frosting**
  8. Add flour to a small saucepan then whisk in milk*. Heat over medium heat and stir until boiling. Continue to cook and stir until thickened. Remove from heat and cool to room temperature.
  9. Cream butter and sugar (if not added to milk mixture) with an electric mixer until fluffy and sugar is no longer grainy (about 5 min). Add vanilla and cooked flour mixture and continue mixing until fluffy and creamy.
  10. *Can add sugar to a saucepan and cook with flour and milk, so it completely dissolves. This works especially well if it’s humid and sugar doesn’t dissolve well when creamed with the butter.