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Here's how your favourite bakery makes red velvet cake

Did you know red velvet cake is a chocolate cake?

File image of a slice of Red Velvet Cake

Red velvet cake is a traditionally crimson-colored chocolate layer cake with cream cheese icing. It's usually made with a combination of buttermilk, butter, cocoa, vinegar, and flour.

This decadent cake can be done in various ways, for example cupcakes, also as a birthday cake or any kind of event cake.

It also pairs well with tea as a dry cake.

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Trick to getting a rich colour red for your Red Velvet Cake

The trick to achieving that rich red colour in your Red Velvet Cake lies in just two main ingredients - vinegar and buttermilk (maziwa mala).

The reaction of acidic vinegar and buttermilk tends to better reveal the red anthocyanin in cocoa and keeps the cake moist, light, and fluffy. This natural tinting may have been the source for the name "red velvet".

It's definitely a healthy cake.

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Ingredients

1 cup All Purpose flour

1 teaspoon Cocoa powder

1/4 cup Butter

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1 1/2 Sugar

1 egg

1 teaspoon Vanilla Essence

1/2 cup Milk

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1 teaspoon red Food Colour

1 teaspoon Vinegar

1 teaspoon baking soda (bi-carbonate of soda)

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Method

  • Grease you baking tin and dust with flour.
  • Pre-heat your oven to 180°c.
  • Measure all your dry ingredients. 
  • Mix the butter and sugar until fluffy and creamy. 
  • Add egg and vanilla essence. 
  • Fold in the flour together with the cocoa powder.
  • Mix vinegar and baking soda and immediately add to the cake batter.
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  • Lastly fold in your milk mixed with food colour. 
  • Mix until its well incorporated and smooth.
  • Pour your butter into the prepared baking tin and bake for 20 to 30 minutes.
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