In need of a good Red Velvet Cake recipe :)

[Polyluvr]

Hi I need some help ! I need a really good red velvet cake recipe~ the one i tried prior came out kind of tasteless and kind of dry


Please help me~ I'd like to make one for Christmas Eve; our big holiday dinner.

Thanks in advance

 

[shirleyb]

I don't have a recipe, but this is a question I've been wondering for a while. What is the point of a red velvet cake? Isn't it really just chocolate cake with food coloring? So why don't we just make chocolate cake?

 

[AmongMadPeople]

Traditional red velvet recipes make a kind of heavy, dry cake. However, I'm perfectly fine with that because we cover it in real butter frosting instead of cream cheese frosting (which does absolutely nothing for me, and makes red velvet fall flat for me).

I don't remember the exact amounts off hand, but it's just butter, sugar, vanilla, milk, and flour and fairly easy to make. It makes red velvet in my opinion.

Did you get the recipe online by chance and can include a link of what you tried? I'll try to find the frosting recipe online.

 

[Meredisney]

My Favorite:

Red Velvet Cake from the Bubble Room Restaurant


Cake:
1 cup buttermilk
1-1/2 cups vegetable oil
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/4 cup (2 1-ounce bottles) red food coloring
1 teaspoon white vinegar
2-1/2 cups self-rising flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon unsweetened cocoa powder
2 large eggs

Frosting:
10 ounces cream cheese, softened
1 1/2 sticks butter, softened
1 16-ounce box confectioner's sugar
1 1/2 cups chopped pecans


Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

In a small bowl, combine buttermilk, oil, vanilla, red food coloring and
white vinegar. Whisk to combine and set aside.

In large bowl of mixer combine flour, baking soda, sugar and cocoa powder.
Gradually add buttermilk mixture, while beating at low speed and scraping
sides and bottom of bowl. Add eggs and beat until smooth.

Spray three 9-inch round cake pans with nonstick coating. Pour batter,
dividing equally, into the three pans.

Bake 35 to 40 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center of cake comes
out clean. Remove from oven and set aside to cool.

In small bowl of mixer, combine cream cheese and butter. Beat at low speed
until well combined. Add sugar and beat until smooth.

Place first cake layer on cake plate. Frost and sprinkle with 1/2 cup
pecans. Top with second layer and frost. Sprinkle with 1/2 cup of pecans.

Top with third layer. Frost top and sides with remaining frosting. Sprinkle
with remaining pecans.

 

[AmongMadPeople]

I don't have a recipe, but this is a question I've been wondering for a while. What is the point of a red velvet cake? Isn't it really just chocolate cake with food coloring? So why don't we just make chocolate cake?

Although it has chocolate in it, I would never consider red velvet a chocolate cake. I put it in the buttermilk cake category There really isn't a strong chocolate flavor. I never had red velvet until a few years ago, and I've had the old recipe as well as store bought. Homemade vs store bought are two completely different cakes in my opinion. Not sure if "real" red velvet is with cream cheese icing, but the recipe several sides of my family and my husband's family have call for real butter frosting.

 

[DalGal]

Traditional red velvet recipes make a kind of heavy, dry cake. However, I'm perfectly fine with that because we cover it in real butter frosting instead of cream cheese frosting (which does absolutely nothing for me, and makes red velvet fall flat for me).

I don't remember the exact amounts off hand, but it's just butter, sugar, vanilla, milk, and flour and fairly easy to make. It makes red velvet in my opinion.

Did you get the recipe online by chance and can include a link of what you tried? I'll try to find the frosting recipe online.

I know it's cheating but unless I really have the time or someone ask for my grandmother's red velvet, I use the Duncan Hines red velvet mix. Like you said, it's not about the cake so much as the frosting. Cream cheese is a no-no for my family. We make what Mammaw called Fluffy White Frosting. Flour and milk cooked,cooled and beaten, then butter (original version also called for Crisco), sugar and vanilla incorporated and beaten until fluffy. I don't do coconut or pecan on mine either. YUMMY!

Only place we've visited that has even come close is the Biltmore's Red Velvet cupcakes (and they are fantastic!) Everywhere else seems to go with Cream Cheese.

 

[Tinkermommy]

I have used this recipe for several years. It always turns out great.

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/sara-moulton/southern-red-velvet-cake-recipe/index.html

Red Velvet is not chocolate cake. It is sooo yummy.

 

[shirleyb]

Thanks for enlightening me! I see the recipes only call for 1 teaspoon cocoa, I assumed it really was chocolate cake, so I've never bothered to try it, now who knows what I've been missing!

 

[Polyluvr]

Thanks guys!!!! I knew I could count on you all

 

[tinatark]

Here's my recipe - I got it from an old family friend - it does have the cooked frosting previous posters have mentioned:
Cake

1 Box Yellow Cake Mix
2 Tbsp. Cocoa
1 large box vanilla instant pudding
4 eggs
3/4 c. milk (can also use half and half or buttermilk instead)
1/2 c. oil
1 Tbsp. vanilla
3 oz red food coloring

Mix all together - bake 30-35 minutes @ 350*

Frosting

(Cook to a thick paste, cool and beat until smooth)
5 Tbsp. flour
1 c. milk ( I use half and half)

(Cream together)
1 cup sugar
1 cup butter, room temp.
1.5 tsp. vanilla

Add the paste to the creamed sugar/butter/vanilla - mix at medium speed until desired consistency

Store the cake in the refrigerator, take out 5-10 min before serving.

Notes - you can make this in a log pan, 3 rounds, or even a bundt. Just adjust the cooking time accordingly. For the log pan, you would need to double the frosting. Where the recipe calls for milk, you can use regular milk, half and half, or heavy cream - I prefer using the half and half.

 

[Green Tea]

I have the best recipe!

1) Drive to Costco

2) find frozen dessert aisle

3) pick up Cheesecake factory Frozen Red Velvet Cheesecake

4)take home and amaze your family!

You can even add step 3.5 of throwing away the box and impressing them even more that made such a nice dessert with barely any mess or time in the kitchen.

 

[Polyluvr]

Green Tea~ you are super funny !

I don't have a Cotsco near me; but I do have a Cheececake Factory near me~ you may have given me an idea

 

[Eliza32]

Get thee to Cheesecake Factory immediately, then post me a piece to the UK please!!!!! (and if you can manage it, could I have a piece of coconut cheesecake too please???)

 

[arminnie]

This is about a 50 year old recipe from Mississippi where I think red velvet cake may have originated - or someplace in the South or maybe not.

Cake - Red velvet
1/2 c butter 2 T cocoa
1 1/2 c sugar 1 t salt
2 eggs 1 t vanilla
2 oz red food coloring 1 t soda
1 c buttermilk 1 T vinegar
2 1/2 c flour
Cream short.& sugar. Add eggs, food color. Add dry ingredients alternately with buttermilk. Beat after each
addition. Add vanilla; mix. Stir in vinegar and soda last without beating. Bake at 350 for 30 min. (2 layers).