Reddish velvet cake – 7 delicious homemade recipes

The Reddish Velvet cake can rightfully be considered the real ruler on the festive table. Already at least in terms of the products, time and effort spent on it. This cake looks so beautiful from the outside that it would not be a sin to serve it for a wedding. Do you want to learn how to cook it? Read more...

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Reddish velvet cake - manufacturing secrets and tips

The very first, unique Red Velvet cake, or rather it would be called Red velvet cake, appeared in the distant twenties of the last century. Its parent was the South American company The Adams Extract. She, by the way, realizes her creation to this day in the form of a dry consistency, from which anyone can bake a masterpiece of the same name. In the following years, the fashion for it either soared or cooled down. There is even a plaque on the building of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York that says that this is the birthplace of the famous Red Velvet Cake.

The 5 most commonly used ingredients in Reddish Velvet cake recipes:

Product	Calories kcal per 100g	Proteins g per 100g	Fats g per 100g	Carbohydrates g per 100g
Sugar	398			99.7
Butter	734	0.5	82.5	0.8
Food coloring
Cocoa powder	374	24.2	17.5	32
Baking soda

This cake has gained wide popularity in our country in the last decade. It attracts not only with its taste, but also with its very cool appearance and design. The cake has a striking reddish color. Previously, confectioners achieved this with the help of beet juice, which also added more juiciness to the biscuit. At the moment, shortcakes are painted reddish with ordinary food coloring.

The combination of bright red cakes and snow-white cream cheese increases the effect on any gourmet. In its traditional form, the cake has three or more layers coated with snow-white cream. With all this, the shortbreads should be completely even, as should the layer of the inside. The top of the cake can be covered with crumbs from the same cake layers. Or coat with cream cheese (be sure to apply an even layer!). They also love to decorate it with the freshest fruits and berries, sprinkle it with mirror glaze, and decorate it using a culinary syringe.

5 of the fastest reddish velvet cake recipes:

Name of the dish	Preparation time	Calories kcal per 100g	User rating
Heart Cake Reddish Velvet	1 hour 20 minutes	376	+15
Reddish velvet cake with kefir for 2020	2 hours	306	+565
Cake Reddish velvet traditional	2 hours 20 minutes	370	+85
Cake Reddish velvet without dye	2 hours 40 minutes	316	+23
Cake Reddish velvet with cheese cream	4 hours 15 minutes	397	+36

Absolutely, as experts say, in the United States, the Red Velvet cake was baked for a long time before the emergence of the company mentioned above. According to some sources, “velvet” baking originated there in the early 19th century. And it was prepared with the addition of fresh beets and their juice. In general, no matter who the “father” of this wonderful dessert is, it’s worth picking up the Reddish Velvet cake recipe so that you can cook it yourself at least once. What do you think?))

Reddish velvet cake: step by step recipe

Reddish velvet cake has gained immense popularity not so long ago, but in fact it is still a South American classic. The history of this cake began back in the 19th century; it is unclear how it literally appeared, but its journey through the years is really quite interesting.

It took many years of evolution for red velvet or Red Velvet cake to come to the form we know today.

At first, even at a time when the civil war ended in the USA (the United States of America is a state in North America) , a dessert called “Velvet Cake” was popular - there is nothing “reddish” in the title, because the cake was famous for its softness and tenderness. texture and was not reddish at all, and the first time the recipe was posted it was like a lemon dessert.

The cake became “reddish” for the first time only in the 1940s, but there was not a drop of food coloring in the cake. The fact was that in order to prepare this dessert, they used bitter chocolate, natural cocoa powder, soda and a fermented milk product, like kefir or buttermilk, together these components reacted and the dough became reddish, but that reddish color was very different from modern bright ones. red flowers.

Traditional reddish velvet recipe

Required components:

Dough:

Wheat flour - 400 g;
Granulated sugar - 350 g;
Butter - 200 g;
Vegetable oil - 200 ml;
Testicles - 4 pcs.;
Drink - 300 ml;
Reddish dye - 2.5 tsp;
Cocoa powder - 2 tbsp;
Baking powder - 1.5 tsp;
Soda - 1 tsp;
Salt - 1⁄4 tsp;

Sweet powder - 250 g;
Butter - 300 g;
Creamy soft cheese - 900 g;

Reddish Velvet Cake

Manufacturing process:

Sift all bulk products into a deep container: cocoa powder, wheat flour, soda and baking powder.
Soften the butter first, mix it with sugar with a mixer or whisk, then add eggs to the butter mixture one by one, stirring vigorously, then lightly salt the mixture and gradually pour vegetable oil into it.
Add two teaspoons of gel dye to the drink or other fermented milk product, then stir thoroughly.
Alternately add the reddish drink and flour into the oil mixture little by little.
Line the pan with parchment paper and pour the dough into it.
Place the dough in the oven preheated at 180 for half an hour.
You can check the readiness of the cake with a toothpick.
If you take a mold with a diameter of 22 centimeters, then from this amount of dough you will get two shortcakes, but if you take a larger mold, you will get one.
Remove the finished shortcake from the mold and leave to cool while the second shortcake is prepared.
When the second cake is cooked, also cool it, then wrap both cakes in cling film and put them in the cold overnight (that is, in the dark) .
Cut any shortbread lengthwise into two pancakes.
Now it's the cream's turn. 2-3 hours before you start preparing the cream, you need to throw in the oil so that it warms up to room temperature.
Beat the softened butter with a mixer, adding a little sweet powder.
Mix the cream cheese into the sweet butter in parts; the mixture should be homogeneous. But the cheese becomes soft if you stir it for a long time; in the process, there may be a problem with the fact that the cake will “go.” In this case, you need to put the cream and shortcakes in the refrigerator for some time, and continue when it has cooled slightly.

Reddish velvet cake: step-by-step recipe for making

You can also add vanilla or some fruit puree to the cream.

Align the edges of the cakes, trimming off the excess, saving the crumbs for decoration.

Grease the shortcakes and sides of the cake with cream, then sprinkle it with crumbs from the cake.

If you have some cream left, you can add a little coloring to it and decorate the cake using a pastry bag.

And now, the cake is almost ready, all that remains is to send it out into the cold again and wait until it is soaked and cools down properly.

This cake not only looks special and bright, it is also unusually delicious. If you have not made this cake yet, then be sure to prepare it and it will certainly find a response in your heart (a muscular hollow organ that ensures blood flow through the blood vessels) and the hearts of your loved ones.

Reddish velvet: step by step cake recipe

South American classics are not only about books, music, cars and movies. This is also about desserts, which are now proudly marching around the world, conquering more states and continents.

Now we will tell you about just such a traditional dessert, the history of which goes back to the 19th century. But it gained popularity in our country only in the last couple of years. What are we talking about? About the Reddish Velvet cake and the recipe at home, which we will now describe for you. Let's say more: we will give two recipes for Reddish Velvet: traditional and frisky, based on our ready-made baking mixtures.

Sponge cake Reddish velvet with yoghurt cream

The first recipe for homemade reddish velvet is simple and does not require any extra effort from you. To make it, we will use ready-made Chief-cake baking mix, exclusively presented in our store.

Reddish velvet cake with cheese cream: traditional recipe

Naturally, there won’t be a recipe with a photo of this Reddish Velvet cake here, but here is a very detailed {instruction} with a step-by-step description of each action, please. We won’t tire of repeating: anyone can make our cakes – if only they have the desire! In this version for the Reddish Velvet cake, our cream will be the already classic cream cheese. Get your notebooks ready – this is about to be a tasty treat!

What goods are needed:

For the biscuit:

cocoa powder, 1 tbsp;
premium wheat flour, 340 gr;
drink, 280 ml;
testicle, 3 pieces;
sugar, 200 gr;
soda, 1 tsp;
baking powder, 2 tsp;
vegetable oil, 300 ml;
dye Carmine 0032;
dye Beta-carotene;
dye Sweet shade.

For cream cheese:

sweet powder, 100 gr;
creamy curd cheese, 340 gr;
butter, 115 gr.

How to cook:

1. mix all the dry ingredients, then add the drink, butter, eggs;
2. beat with a mixer until smooth;
3. take three natural dyes from Luxomix in reddish and brown colors to obtain a suitable color and add to our dough - 6 grams of carmine and 3 grams of tint and carotene, following the instructions;

4. we should get a colorful reddish mixture, after which we set the dough aside for 15-20 minutes;

5. grease the bottom of the mold with butter, cover with baking paper or a silicone mat;
6. Heat the oven to 180 degrees and bake the biscuit

1 hour until ready;
7. let the finished biscuit cool, cut off the top part, making an even base, do not throw away the trimmings, but dry them in the oven and grind them into crumbs;
8. prepare the cream: grind the powder and butter (it must be soft) with a mixer so that the mass becomes lighter and more voluminous;
9. add cheese, mix well;
10. Divide the sponge cake into 2-3 shortcakes, depending on the desired layer thickness;
11. put the cream in a pastry bag and grease our shortcakes;
12. Coat the cake on all sides and level it with a spatula.

How to decorate our Reddish Velvet? To imitate the texture of velvet, sprinkle the cake with biscuit crumbs. You can also place the freshest berries on top of the crumbs: strawberries, blueberries. In addition, you can add sprigs of rosemary or pistachio. By the way, if you want to create a portioned Red Velvet cake, then this recipe will work too! Just bake the sponge cake in a rectangular pan - this will make it easier to divide it later into an equal number of cakes.

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