Red Velvet Cake

August 02, 2012

Ingredients

Cake

2 1/2 cups cake flour (or if can't find cake flour, make your own2 1/2 cup plain flour and 5 tbsp cornstarch (tepung jagung))

2 tbsp cocoa powder

1 tsp salt

1 cup buttermilk (or make your own, 1 cup fresh milk add in 1 tbsp lime extract, leave for 10 minutes)

2 tbsp red colouring

110g butter, room temp

1 tsp vanilla essence

2 large eggs, room temp

1 1/2 cups castor sugar

1 tsp white vinegar

1 tsp baking soda

Cream Cheese

500g cream cheese

1 cup icing sugar, sifted

1 tsp vanilla essence

250ml thickened cream

Instructions

Cake

1) Preheat oven at 180'c. Line two 9-inch springforms withbaking paper and grease the sides with butter

2) To make your own cake flour, take 2 1/2 of plain flour, put in a bowl. Then for each cup, take out 2 tbsp of the flour and masuk balik dlm plastic. So kira keluarkan balik 5 tbsp for this. Then masuk 5 tbsp of cornstarch to ganti the flour tadi. Sift for about 5 times, so that the cornstarch incorporates with the plain flour

3) In a big bowl mix the flour, cocoa powder and salt

4) In another bowl, mix the buttermilk with the red colouring

5) In a mixer, mix the butter for about 2 minutes then add in the sugar and vanilla essence, beat for another 2-3 until fluffy. Next add in the eggs one by one. Masuk satu, mix, then baru lagi satu until smooth

6) Then masukkan the dry and wet mixture alternately. Start and ends with the flour mixture. So its like, 1/3 flour, 1/2 buttermilk, 1/3 flour, 1/2 buttermilk, 1/3 flour. Make sure u mix in between each addition

7) Bila dah smooth, ketepikan the bowl and get ready to pour in the tin. But not yet! In a small bowl, mix the vinegar with the baking soda. When it fizzles, add into the batter, the quickly fold with a spatula so that it mixes well. Then pour evenly into the cake tins and terus masuk oven. Bila dah masuk the fizzling vinegar+soda kena cepat2 masuk dalam oven

8) Bake in the oven for 20 mins or until a pick comes out clean. Let the cakes cool in the tins for 10 mins, then transfer onto a wire rack to let them cool to room temp. Then wrap the cakes individually with clingfold and simpan dalam fridge for at least an hour