Easy Red Velvet with Cream Cheese Frosting. This recipe produces the best red velvet cake with superior buttery, vanilla, and cocoa flavors, as well as a delicious tang from buttermilk. My trick is to whip the egg whites, which guarantees a smooth velvet crumb. Scrape down the sides and bottom of the bowl to ensure even.
I didn't have buttermilk so I subbed it out with natural yogurt and normal. Our easy version of Red Velvet Cake starts with a cake mix and uses the "one bowl" method of combining all the ingredients at once to make the batter. Make it even easier by purchasing a container of cream cheese frosting instead of preparing the frosting from scratch. You can have Easy Red Velvet with Cream Cheese Frosting using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Easy Red Velvet with Cream Cheese Frosting
- It's 150 g of Redman Super Sponge Cake Mix.
- Prepare 1 tbspn of cocoa powder.
- It's 3 of large eggs.
- It's 30 g of buttermilk.
- It's 30 g of butter, melted.
- You need of Red food coloring.
- Prepare of Cream Cheese Frosting.
- It's 1 block of Philadelphia cream cheese (250g).
- It's 6 tbspn of castor sugar (i used fine table sugar).
- Prepare 1/2 tsp of vanilla essence.
- It's 4 of tbpn whipped cream.
Sift in half the powdered sugar and beat to combine. Use a wooden skewer and more red food coloring to decorate to your liking. Creamy frosting doubles as a surprise filling in rich, red velvet cupcakes. In large bowl, beat cream cheese, butter and vanilla with electric mixer on high speed until fluffy.
Easy Red Velvet with Cream Cheese Frosting step by step
- Put in the cake mix, cocoa powder, eggs and buttermilk into mixer bowl. Whisk using medium speed for 3 minutes. Then high speed for 8-10 minutes..
- Fold in melted butter. Followed by red coloring. I used Wilton's gel..
- Scoop into cups. Bake for 10-15 minutes at 150 deg cel, depending on oven. Or till toothpick comes out clean. Once done, cool completely on cooling rack..
- Whisk cream cheese, sugar and vanilla on medium speed for 1 minute. Then high speed till sugar dissolved..
- Stir in whipped cream, flattening any air holes in the cream cheese..
- Pipe out on cooled cupcakes. I used Wilton's 2D tip..
Gradually add powdered sugar, beating until smooth. With red velvet you have to take it easy on the chocolate or cocoa to get a nice red color. They are more of a brownie that has a hint of chocolate and a nice Place on wire rack to cool completely then frost with cream cheese frosting once cool and cut into squares (I frosted each brownie individually. And cream cheese frosting is always required when red velvet is involved. I've heard people say that red velvet cake is just chocolate cake with red food So moist, so much flavor and easy to make.