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Red velvet cake
Recipe by:
PAL
A wonderful recipe for the classic American red velvet cake with a white chocolate cream cheese icing.
Ready in 1 hour 10 mins
Saved by 170 cook(s)
Ingredients
Serves: 12
- 250g butter, softened
- 600g caster sugar
- 6 eggs
- 2 tablespoons red food colouring
- 3 tablespoons best quality cocoa powder
- 375g plain flour
- 250ml buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
- 1 tablespoon vinegar
- Icing
- 2 (200g) tubs cream cheese
- 350g white chocolate
- 250g butter, softened
Preparation method
Prep: 45 mins | Cook: 25 mins1.
Preheat oven to 170 C / Gas mark 3. Grease and flour three 20cm tins.
2.
In a large bowl, cream 250g butter with sugar. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Mix food colouring with cocoa and add to mixture.
3.
Add flour alternately with buttermilk. Add vanilla and salt.
4.
Mix bicarbonate of soda with vinegar, and gently stir into mixture. Be careful not to over mix.
5.
Divide cake mixture into three prepared tins. Bake in the preheated oven for 25 minutes. Allow to cool.
6.
To make the White Chocolate Cream Cheese Icing: Melt the white chocolate and allow to cool to lukewarm. In a large bowl, beat the cream cheese until light and fluffy. Gradually beat in melted white chocolate and softened butter. Beat until it is the consistency of whipped cream, then use to fill and ice the cake.
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Last updated:
21 Mar 2012
Easy
i thought i'd comment since the reviews are quite mixed and confusing! I followed the recipe to a T and it has come out perfect 3x20cm cakes the only negative i have is that it isn't vibrant red - maybe next time increase colouring or buy a more expensive one! to be fair though the only red i had in was natural red which isn't the brightest anyway!
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16 May 2012
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i made this cake and it was easy to make but never come out red and it don't taste very nice what have i done wrong
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08 May 2012
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Found this really straight forward. Cake was huge when finished. A real show piece and tasted great!
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01 May 2012
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Found it really easy to make, although I added the red colouring to the buttermilk not the cocoa, and I used white distilled vinegar (this recipe didnt specify the type)very sweet but looking at the ingredients I expected nothing else x x x
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04 Apr 2012
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I wish I had read these reviews before baking this cake!!!! The mix was very easy to prepare although the food colouring and cocoa mixture was very gloopy. (I would recommend maybe only mixing half the powder to the colouring and adding the rest of the powder separately) Having baked the cakes for 25 minutes I opened my oven to find the mixture had expanded so much that it had spilled all over the oven floor and the cakes were nowhere near baked - I ended up cooking them for almost an hour. The cakes were not red as expected but were a similar colour to a ginger cake and the consistency was not light and fluffy as expected but more like the consitency of a sticky toffee pudding. Having then read the reviews I decided not to try the cream cheese icing but to make a plain buttercream filling.
Although the cake was very nice I probably would not make this again.
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25 Mar 2012
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Easy to prepare, but took an hour to bake instead of the 25 mins stated. Lovely red colour, my food colouring came from Sainsburys. The topping and filling however was a disaster, it's very thin, which makes it look like the Leaning Tower! Disappointing but I'm glad I've tried it even if it's the first and last!
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21 Mar 2012
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I'm not sure what I did where this recipe is concerend, but it was incredible! really easy, cooked great, was loved by everyone who tried it! It is however a massive mix and I only used two of the three cakes and it stood at 6inchs tall!
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15 Feb 2012
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After reading all the (negative!) reviews on here, we added 75g of self raising flour and 2 extra teaspoons of bicarbonate of soda.
Cake wasn't particularly red, but tasted good and was dense enough for it's purpose (tiered and decorated).
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14 Feb 2012
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Total unmitigated disaster and I am a very experienced baker! The mixture did not bake properly and was like goo. The colour reminded me of something found only in baby's nappies. The smell when baking was horrendous. It was a disgusting sludgy brown and nowhere near red. I tasted some of the half cooked goo and it was foul. I have just spent the last hour cleaning my oven and I am as mad as hell at the total waste of ingredients.
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04 Feb 2012
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This recipe was a failure! The mixture was a brown colour, nowhere near the red colour described! Once the bicarbonate of soda was added, the mixture expanded dramatically, leaving me running round the kitchen trying to fin containers to hold the mixture. Whilst in the oven, the mixture dripped everywhere, I only got it out of the oven once it had stopped dripping, and by then it was burnt to a crisp! It all went in the bin, a waste of time and money
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28 Jan 2012
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