Red Velvet Cake
- Ready In:
- 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 14
- Yields:
-
3 layers
- Serves:
- 12
ingredients
- 591.47 ml cake flour
- 354.88 ml sugar
- 4.92 ml baking soda
- 4.92 ml salt
- 236.59 ml cooking oil
- 226.79 g butter
- 295.73 ml buttermilk
- 3 large eggs
- 9.85 ml vanilla extract
- 56.69 g red food coloring
-
Cream Cheese Icing
- 113.39 g butter
- 226.79 g cream cheese
- 453.59 g confectioners' sugar (10X)
- 236.59 ml pecans, finely chopped
directions
- Mix dry ingredients together. Add remaining ingredients in order, one at a time. Mix after each ingredient is added, batter should be an even shade of dark red.
- Divide batter evenly between 3 cake pans.
- Bake at 375 degrees for 30 to 40 minutes.
-
Icing:
- Mix butter, cream cheese and sugar together until creamy consistency.
- Spread on cool layers. The first two layers should have pecans sprinkled generously on top of icing.
- Optional: Color icing for outer cake with a couple of drops of green food coloring. Ice cake and decorate with pecan halves and cherries for a beautiful Christmas cake or experiment for other holidays!
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