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. In this video I share with you my Red Velvet Cake Recipe.

Scrape down the sides and bottom of the bowl to ensure even. The cake has almost no flavor and the icing is insanely sweet. Great recipe, very easy to make! You can have Easy Red Velvet with Cream Cheese Frosting using 11 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Easy Red Velvet with Cream Cheese Frosting

It's 150 g of Redman Super Sponge Cake Mix.
You need 1 tbspn of cocoa powder.
It's 3 of large eggs.
It's 30 g of buttermilk.
Prepare 30 g of butter, melted.
It's of Red food coloring.
It's of Cream Cheese Frosting.
Prepare 1 block of Philadelphia cream cheese (250g).
Prepare 6 tbspn of castor sugar (i used fine table sugar).
It's 1/2 tsp of vanilla essence.
Prepare 4 of tbpn whipped cream.

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. Sift in half the powdered sugar and beat to combine.

Easy Red Velvet with Cream Cheese Frosting instructions

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..

Use a wooden skewer and more red food coloring to decorate to your liking. 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. And with the cream cheese icing - perfect! Red velvet certainly does vary a lot.