Anyone Have A Good Recipe For Red Velvet Cake?
Decorating By isabelianico Updated 10 Mar 2007 , 12:47am by slpbjones
I'm doing a wedding cake for my best friend and she wants a red velvet cake. I just want to make sure that I have one that will be good for decorating and won't fall apart. I don't want to try a new one only to find out that it isn't dense enough. Anybody have any good suggestions for one they have used before?
I made 14 of these for my first wedding order. They all loved the cake and it was a good texture to work with, etc...
Red Velvet Cake
1/2 cup shortening
1 1/2 cups white sugar
2 eggs
2 Tbsp cocoa powder
4 Tbsp red food coloring
1 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup buttermilk
2 1/4 cups sifted flour
1 1/2 tsp baking soda
1 Tbsp vinegar
Cream shortening & sugar very well. Make a paste of red food coloring & cocoa. Add to crisco & sugar.
Mix salt, vanilla, buttermilk & eggs. Add alternately with flour to creamed mixture.
Mix baking soda and vinegar. Fold into cake batter. Don't beat or stir.
350 degrees. 30 min. 2 - 9" pans.
Not that I don't love the look of this recipe and I'll probably still make it, but I was wondering, has anyone ever used a cake mix to make a red velvet cake? The last time I used a white cake mix because I was making a turtle cake and he wanted it BLOOD red (you can see it in my pics). I used the extender recipe on here and it tasted really good, but obviously needs to be darker for a wedding cake. My question is, do you add cocoa powder to a white cake mix or use a chocolate cake mix and just add the coloring?? Also, I heard that some brands of the red food color have a bitter taste - is there one that's better than another (that I could actually find at a local grocery store)? Thanks!!
Stephanie
hmm not sure about the different brands of red food coloring... but i'm pretty sure i've seen a red velvet cake mix, have you seen that?
i don't know if you've ever made wacky cake (also called crazy cake, and a variety of other names...it's an eggless chocolate cake), anyways this red velvet recipe tastes like wacky cake without the chocolate. i personally don't eat the stuff 'cause i don't like to put all that red dye into my body but i had to sample a bite when i made those wedding cakes.
They make a red velvet cake mix, I saw it in the grocery store just the other day. Can't remember what brand it was though.
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