I had never heard of red velvet cake, I dont think its one we have in Scotland so I was keen to try it. I mixed it all up used the dr otakrs (sp?) red colour too I baked them and was really excited to taste them.........
Took them out of oven and they were a light brown colour!!!! what did I do wrong?? only thing I missed out what the white vinegar so you think thats the problem??
Red velvet is just yellow cake with cocoa and lots and lots of red coloring. If your cake looks dark, then that means that you did not put enough red color, which, by the way, makes it a bit bitter. Because red is so bitter, I try orange and then red. How much did you put? Because one or two ounces of liquid red is not unheard of if you have to counter the chocolate color of the cocoa.
Pinkjacs, you NEED, absolutely NEED the vinegar.
The vinegar reacts with the baking soda to bring out the color in your batter and make it a bright red. Also helps with the texture, light and fluffy.
If your recipe calls for vinegar, you have to usse it. It's an integral part of the recipe. It creates a specific chemical reaction that makes the cake bake as intended.
That is, if you bother to try it again. I don't think red velvet cake tastes like much of anything. It doesn't have enough cocoa in it to make it a chocolate cake.
By the way, you might want to try the original recipe which was invented in the 1920s at the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York City. It uses red beets, which makes it moist and adds some of the red color.
http://cakecentral.com/recipes/15519/1920s-waldorf-astoria-red-velvet-cake
Hi,
The first time i made them i used the Dr.O colour but round here they only seem to sell the natural colouring bottles now which made mine a redy brown colour and i did use vinegar.
I was going to add colour paste to make them more red but I made some on friday but this time used Silver Spoon red colouring and they came out a gorgeous deep red colour!!
They stock the silver spoon in Sainsburys so i'd try that if i was you.
I've had the cake without the color too, and it's just delicious. A little hint of cocoa. A lot of times I just omit the color. They have started making them in other colors too. I've seen pink velvet and blue velvet. All it matters is that it's velvet (bur for that texture, you do need the vinegar, still).
Yes, Pink Cake Box has the pink (and it looks like the electric pink) as one of the flavors.
I've never done it, but there's a picture of her mixer here with that cake being made.
http://blog.pinkcakebox.com/category/qa
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