Cake "Red velvet": recipe for cooking (photo)

Cake "Red velvet" is a rather unusual dessert, consisting of airy and soft biscuit red color with chocolate taste. The originality of this product gives and white creamy cream. It is worth mentioning 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 figure out how true this American dessert was to the dessert.

Red velvet cake: original recipe

Before making such a beautiful and delicious dessert, you need to prepare a biscuit base in advance. For this we need the following ingredients:

• Salt sea fine - ¼ of a dessert spoon;
• Flour, sifted, premium grade - 250 g;
• Eggs large chicken - 2 pcs .;
• Cocoa powder or grated dark chocolate - a full large spoon;
• Fresh creamy oil - 130 g;
• Sand white sugar - 260 g;
• Vanilla - a dessert spoon;
• Sour cream lean or strawberry yogurt - 250 ml;
• Dye liquid food (only red) - 2 large spoons;
• Vinegar 6% apple - dessert spoon;
• Soda canteen - dessert spoon.

Biscuit mixing process

Biscuit "Red velvet" is prepared quite easily and quickly. To do this, it is necessary to get the butter (cream) from the refrigerating chamber in advance and allow it to completely thaw. Then it should be put in a blender and beat well. In the process, it is also necessary to pour in granulated sugar, vanillin, sea salt and cocoa powder. After the performed actions it is necessary to proceed to kneading the second part of the test. To do this, it is required to beat up eggs of chicken and lay low-fat sour cream or strawberry yogurt to them. In addition to dairy products, red food coloring should be added to the same dishes and apple cider vinegar should be extinguished with table salt. Finally, both parts of the test should be combined and mixed properly, by pouring sifted wheat flour.

To make the cake "Red velvet" (photo, the recipe of preparation presented in this article) turned out to be maximally lush and soft, it is recommended to mix the base not very densely (approximately, as for the charlotte).

The process of baking red biscuit

Bake the basis for this dessert is recommended in a special split form. Its surface must be carefully lubricated with vegetable refined oil, and then pour in all the previously mixed dough. Next, the dishes should be placed in a preheated oven and held at a temperature of 195 degrees for about 65 minutes. After the specified time, you need to stick a toothpick into the biscuit (match) and see if there are any particles of the base on it. If the wooden object remains dry and clean, then the cake can be safely removed from the mold. After this, it is necessary to completely cool and cut off the edges, using a plate as a kind of pattern (if required). Next, a magnificent biscuit should be divided in half, resulting in you will get 2 thin crusts of dark red or burgundy color.

Essential Ingredients for Milk Cream

Observing all the rules for preparing this dessert, you are sure to get a very tasty and beautiful cake "Red Velvet". The original cream recipe for this product includes the following components:

• Soft and sweet mascarpone cheese - 500 g;
• Cream of maximum fat content (can be thick sour cream) - 400 ml;
• Powdered sugar - 130 g;
• Coconut chips - use to cover the dessert.

The process of making milk cream

Cake "Red velvet" can be done 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 whip with a blender. During this procedure, to the dairy product should gradually add the powdered sugar and mascarpone soft cheese. As a result, you should get a fluffy and airy filling, which immediately needs to 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 previously baked cake. Further, the base needs to be abundantly lubricated with milk cream and place the second biscuit. In the end, on the surface of the formed cake, including its side parts, it is necessary to apply all the rests of the milk filling.

To give the dessert a beautiful and original appearance, it is recommended that it be completely sprinkled with coconut shavings. As a result, you will get a snow-white cake, which in the section will be dark red.

How to dessert?

Unusually beautiful cake "Red velvet", the recipe of which we reviewed above, before serving to the festive table should always be kept in a refrigerator for at least four hours. During this time, sponge cakes are completely soaked with milk cream, becoming softer, delicate and tasty. After this dessert should be taken out, cut into portions and served to family members along with hot tea. Bon Appetit!

Useful advice to housewives

1. If in the section you want to get a brighter cake, then the amount of red food coloring can be doubled. In this case, cocoa powder or chocolate chips in biscuit dough is better not to add, as the named ingredients make the cakes much darker.
2. As a cream, you can use not soft mascarpone cheese and cream, but usual butter with condensed milk (only not boiled). The taste of the cake from such a filling will practically not change. But at the same time, sweet sweet notes of condensed milk will appear in it.
3. For a more original decoration, dessert can not simply be sprinkled with coconut chips, but also put on the surface of bright red or burgundy cherries, as well as petals made from melted dark chocolate.