Red Velvet Cake - a perfect cake recipe to surprise your loved one this Valentine.
This Red Velvet Cake looks very beautiful and I promise that you will be amazed to see the results when you prepare this delicious cake at home to surprise someone you love.
This recipe is about Red Velvet Cake but I would rather like to call it a Valentine's Day Cake because it is really a perfect cake recipe to celebrate Valentine's Day. This Valentine's Day cake is super red coloured and a perfect cake to celebrate the day by preparing this beautiful cake at home.
You can prepare Red Velvet Cake at home in any shapes - heart shape red velvet cake, round or square shaped as you prefer. However, if you are planning to prepare this cake at home for valentine's day - you can use heart shaped cake tins to prepare this wonderful cake recipe. The designs of this cake vary as per ones choice and you can make this cake in any design as you like.
This is an eggless cake and I haven't even used vinegar in this recipe. Ideally, cream cheese frosting is used to prepare Red Velvet Cake. However, I chose to use whipped cream instead to cook this Red Velvet Cake and it turned out really nice.
Mastering the technique of baking a cake takes time and the images you see in this blog is not of my first trial obviously. Just like almost every other cook, I failed quite a few times to master the perfect texture and look of this Red Velvet Cake. One can get very disappointed when trying such recipes for the first time as it is likely that you won't get the desired results in your first try.
But that's not end of the world, and I encourage you to keep trying always. That's the only way to master food recipes and after all it's not very tough - it just takes some time and patience. After failing a few times, I eventually found the perfect way to prepare a Red Velvet Cake Recipe.
If you would like to watch this recipe on video then here is the complete YouTube video which describes the process of making Red Velvet Cake at home.
If you fancy ice creams, here is another recipe for Strawberries with Cream, I hope you enjoy that too.
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Brush cake tin completely with cooking oil and line with parchment paper.
Take powdered sugar, curd and oil to a mixing bowl.
Whisk all the ingredients very well with a whisker until batter is well mixed and very smooth.
Once all ingredients are whisked well, add vanilla extract to it.
Then place a sieve on bowl and add below ingredients to it and sieve all dry ingredients together.
Now add red food gel colour to the milk and give it a good mix and keep aside.
You can visit this Red Velvet Cake YouTube Video to get a detailed view of this entire process.
Before adding milk, add curd to the cake mixture and mix all ingredients well.
Now give coloured milk a good stir and gradually mix it to the cake mixture. Mix using a whisker light handedly to remove lumps in the batter.
Then mix the batter with cut and fold method using spatula and remove all lumps.
Lastly add lemon juice to the batter and mix with cut and fold method for 5 to 6 times.
Pour batter to the parchment paper lined cake tin and tap the cake tin well to remove air bubbles.
Pre-heat a kadhai or any aluminium vessel with enough height for cake to rise, and place a steel ring inside it.
Place cake tin in the pre-heated aluminium vessel and cover with a plate. Bake cake for 40 to 45 minutes on a medium flame.
After 45 minutes, skewer came out clean, cake is perfectly baked. Look at the perfect and nice red colour 😍 .
Transfer the cake to cooling rack. Cover with a cloth and allow to cool down for 15 minutes. After 15 minutes, remove parchment paper and demold cake from the tin.
Let it be on cooling rack covered with a cloth until cake has completely cooled down (takes about 6 to 7 hours).
Once cake is cooled down completely, transfer cake to a turning table.
Then cut the cake into total of 3 layers (i.e. 2 cuts in the middle). Red Velvet cake looks perfect, light and spongy textured.
Now take that top thin layer we kept aside earlier and break it into crumbles. You can do it with hands or use grinder. However, make sure not to grind it into very fine granules.
To prepare sugar syrup, take 3 to 4 table spoons of water and add 2 table spoons of powdered sugar to it. Mix until sugar is completely dissolved and sugar syrup will be ready for spreading on cake layers.
Now is the time to prepare whipped cream.
Now cake decoration time.
Repeat the process for all the layers - place a layer, then sugar syrup, whipped cream layer and strawberry syrup.
For the topmost layer do not add strawberry syrup, just the whipped cream would do.
After covering entire cake with whipped cream, transfer remaining cream to the piping bag and make some flowers on the cake with any nozzle of your choice.
Now fill center of the cake with red velvety crumbles and use knife or spoon to spread it carefully. Then cover the sides too with crumbles using hands and spatula.
Finally, place some silver edible balls on each whipped cream flower tip.
At last cut and serve the RED VELVET CAKE. You can also let the cake set for some time (30 minutes) in refrigerator or cut it immediately if you are like me and can't wait 😜 .
Super soft and spongy Red Velvet Cake is ready.
Enjoy it anytime and refrigerate it for later if you want to.