Cake "Red Velvet" is a rather unusual dessert, consisting of airy and soft red biscuit with chocolate flavor. Originality is given to this product by snow-white cream. It is worth noting that the Red Velvet cake came to our country from the United States of America and Canada.
Today there are many stories of the appearance of this unusual dessert. Its second name sounds like Waldorf-Astoria Cake, which means “100-dollar cake”. Let’s take a look together how truly the American creators appreciated this dessert.
Cake "Red Velvet": an original recipe for cooking
Before making such a beautiful and very delicious dessert, you need to prepare a biscuit base in advance. To do this, we need the following ingredients:
- small sea salt - ¼ part of a dessert spoon;
- flour, sifted, premium - 250 g;
- large chicken eggs - 2 pcs.;
- cocoa powder or grated dark chocolate - a full large spoon;
- fresh butter - 130 g;
- white sugar sand - 260 g;
- vanillin - a dessert spoon;
- low-fat sour cream or strawberry yogurt - 250 ml;
- liquid food coloring (red only) - 2 large spoons;
- vinegar 6% apple - dessert spoon;
- table soda - dessert spoon.
The process of mixing the biscuit base
Sponge cake "Red Velvet" is prepared quite easily and quickly. For this, it is necessary to get the butter (cream) from the refrigerator compartment in advance and allow it to thaw completely. Then it should be put in a blender and beat well. In the process, sugar, vanillin, sea salt and cocoa powder should also be added to the container. After the steps taken, proceed to kneading the second part of the test. To do this, you need to beat the chicken eggs strongly and put them low-fat sour cream or strawberry yogurt. In addition to dairy products, it is necessary to add red food coloring to the same dishes and extinguish table soda with apple cider vinegar. In conclusion, both parts of the dough should be combined and mixed well, pouring the sifted wheat flour.
To make the cake “Red Velvet” (photos, cooking recipe presented in this article) turned out to be as magnificent and soft as possible, it is recommended to knead the base not very thickly (approximately, as for charlotte).
The process of baking red biscuit
It is recommended to bake the base for such a dessert in a special detachable form. Its surface must be carefully lubricated with refined vegetable oil, and then pour in all previously kneaded dough. Next, the dishes should be placed in a preheated oven and kept at a temperature of 195 degrees for about 65 minutes. After the specified time has passed, it is required to stick a toothpick (match) into the biscuit and see if particles of the base have stuck to it. If the wooden object remains dry and clean, then the cake can be safely removed from the mold. After that, it is necessary to completely cool and cut off the edges, using a plate as a kind of pattern (if necessary). Next, the fluffy biscuit should be halved, as a result of which you will get 2 thin cakes of dark red or burgundy color.
Essential Ingredients for Milk Cream
Observing all the rules for the preparation of this dessert, you are sure to get a very tasty and beautiful cake "Red Velvet". The original cream recipe for such a product includes the following components:
- soft and sweet mascarpone cheese - 500 g;
- cream of maximum fat content (you can thick sour cream) - 400 ml;
- icing sugar - 130 g;
- coconut flakes - use to sprinkle dessert.
The process of making milk cream
Cake "Red Velvet" can be made on the basis of any cream you like. But the chosen filling must be necessarily white.
So, to prepare a tasty and sweet cream, you need to take fat cream or sour cream, and then whisk strongly with a blender. During this procedure, powdered sugar and soft mascarpone cheese should be gradually added to the dairy product. As a result, you should get a magnificent and airy filling, which must immediately be used for its intended purpose.
The process of forming a dish and decorating it
Cake "Red Velvet" is formed in exactly the same way as other biscuit desserts. To do this, take a large flat plate and lay on it the previously baked cake. Next, the base needs to be generously greased with milk cream and place a second biscuit. In conclusion, all the remains of the milk filling should be applied to the surface of the formed cake, including its side parts.
To give the dessert a beautiful and original appearance, it is recommended to completely sprinkle it with coconut. As a result, you get a snow-white cake, which in the context will be dark red.
How to present dessert to the table?
The unusually beautiful cake "Red Velvet", the recipe of which we examined above, must be kept in the refrigerator for at least four hours before serving to the festive table. During this time, the biscuit cakes are completely saturated with milk cream, becoming softer, more delicate and tasty. After this, the dessert should be removed, cut into portions and served to family members along with hot tea. Bon Appetit!
Useful tips for housewives
- If in a section you want to get a brighter cake, then the amount of red food coloring can be doubled. At the same time, it is better not to add cocoa powder or chocolate chips to the biscuit dough , as these ingredients make the cakes much darker.
- As a cream, you can use not soft mascarpone cheese and cream, but ordinary butter with condensed milk (only not boiled). The taste of the cake from such a filling practically does not change. But at the same time, pleasant sweet notes of condensed milk will appear in it.
- For a more original decoration, dessert can be not just sprinkled with coconut, but also laid out on the surface with bright red or burgundy cherries, as well as petals made from melted dark chocolate.