Red Velvet Cake
Red Velvet Cake
Ingredients
3 eggs
225ml Spar sugar
375ml cake flour
15ml cocoa powder
250ml buttermilk
1 bottle red food colouring
5ml vanilla essence
250ml Spar sunflower oil
10ml Spar white vinegar
5ml bicarbonate of soda
Here’s how:
Sift the flour and cocoa powder.
Whisk the eggs and sugar until very pale in colour.
Fold in the half the sifted dry ingredients and then the buttermilk.
Repeat with the remaining dry ingredients.
Fold in the red food colouring, vanilla essence and sunflower oil.
Continue folding the ingredients to ensure the oil is well combined.
Pour the vinegar over the batter and then sprinkle the bicarb over.
Mix well to combine.
Divide the mixture into three 20cm greased and lined cake tins.
Bake at 170 degrees Celsius for 20 minutes.
The cakes cooling on the wire rack
Leave to cool in the tin for 5 minutes and then turn out on a wire rack.
Leave the cakes to cool completely.
Cream cheese frosting for Red Velvet Cake
125g soft Spar butter
750ml Spar Icing sugar
2 tubs Spar plain cream cheese
5ml Vanilla paste or extract
80ml fresh cream
Chocolate hearts, to garnish
For the frosting:
Cream butter and gradually add the icing sugar until light in colour.
Add the cream cheese and continue beating.
Add vanilla essence and fresh cream.
Continue beating until well combined – do not over-beat as the frosting can split.
Spread between layers and on top and sides of cake and garnish.
Garnish the cake with chocolate truffles and berries.
yudhikayumyum 
No baking powder for this recipe?
Hello Neha, this recipe uses only bicarb which reacts with the vinegar to work as a raising agent. Regards, YUdhika
Hi, thanks a lot.
Ur other recipe has 25g of cocoa, is that the same as 15ml?
Hi. I noticed whenever I use bicarb, the cake will rise and then sink after a while? can you explain why this happens?
I have also read that if you add to much of food colouring, this can make the cake very dry?
Hi Preni, I have not experienced this when I use bicarb. I do know that when using a recipe that contains bicarb – I generally opt for one that has an acidic ingredient like buttermilk or yoghurt to make it the perfect raising agent. I have also not experienced food colouring making a cake dry but if you are concerned give the red velvet cake a bash – tried and tested as you can see from the show. Good luck with your baking.
I am gonna try your Red Velvet Cake receipe Today. Hope I don’t flop. Thanx for the great Receipes.
I did however expertise some technical points using this site, since I experienced to reload the site lots of times previous to I could get it to load correctly.
Love the red velvet cake. Thank you
Tried this beautiful recipe and its nothing short of being simply gorgeous, I searched a long time for a fail proof Red Velvet Cake recipe that I myself could use and share and i finally found it 🙂 JOY. Many many thanks.
Hi Yudhika
I want to try your yummy red velvet cake but how can I print the recipes?
I would just copy and paste…then print! Let me know if it works! Or I could just email you??? Happy baking!
Hi Yudhika
I can copy but its not pasting:-(
Regards
Sent via my BlackBerry from Vodacom – let your email find you!
Hi again…Will email it to you! Give me a minute! Yudhika
hi yudika , i have used this recipe , ever since i saw you on the show , amazing and the best recipe ever , please will you send more recipes .
Stay tuned, Stacey! There are more recipes what will be posted! Glad that you enjoyed the red velvet cake.
Hi Yudhika. I just want to say I tried ypur recipe and the cake was absoloutely delicious!
Everyone complimented me and they were very impressed.
Will definitely try more of your recipes.
thank you!!!!!!
HI Tarine! Great to hear from you! so so delighted that it turned out deliciously! Keep in touch! X
Hi Yudhika. I have tried most of your recipes and it always turns out delicious. Since early this year I developed sensitivity,intolerance and allergy to certain foods and ingredients. I have been craving for Red Velvet cake but due to my allergy am unable to eat the normal flours. Please help me turn this recipe into a wheat free, gluten free cake
Hi Bev…sorry to hear about the allergy! I will have to go back to the drawing board on this!
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Hi can’t marg be used instead of oil or half of marg n oil.
Can I plz have the black forest cake recipe,burfee cake n a simple chocolaate cake recipe
Hi sharda -which recipe is the substitution for? I havent used marg much ever….if you are looking for recipes, just type them in the search bar and click enter! Its the easiest way. Will post links shortly. X