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red velvet cake recipe

Old-Fashioned Red Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Patricia Valbrun
This delicious Easy Red Velvet Cake with cream cheese frosting is fluffy, moist and easy to make. The best dessert to have is this red velvet cake recipe with buttermilk that’s made from scratch. 
4.75 from 4 votes
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 35 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine American, southern
Servings 8 people
Calories 1508 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 2 ½ cups cake flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 tablespoon baking soda
  • 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt

Wet Ingredients

  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1 ⅓ cups vegetable oil
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 egg yolk
  • 1 cup buttermilk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1 teaspoon vinegar
  • ½ cup warm coffee
  • 1 tablespoon dark rum
  • 3 tablespoons red food coloring

White Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting

  • 2 sticks unsalted butter soften
  • 14 ounces white chocolate melted and cooled
  • 4 cups powder sugar
  • 1-2 tablespoon lemon elusion
  • 8 ounce cream cheese

Instructions
 

  • Preheat oven 350 F.
  • Stiff the cake flour and cocoa powder together.
  • In a large bowl mix all wet ingredients, eggs sugar and rest of wet ingredients to a bowl
  • Add all the dry ingredients to the wet ingrdients with coffee and red food coloring .
  • Grease 3 9 inch baking dish with butter and flour. Pour in batter and cook for 20 minutes or until tooth pick instered and comes out clean.
  • In a medium size bowl add all icing ingredients such as, butter, powder sugar, white chocolate, lemon illusion and cream cheese.  Cream using an electric mixer until its becomes smooth.
  • Once cake is done baking allow it to rest for 30 minutes and then start icing cake to your liking. Enjoy !

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Nutrition

Serving: 10people | Calories: 1508kcal | Carbohydrates: 172g | Protein: 13g | Fat: 89g | Saturated Fat: 37g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 23g | Monounsaturated Fat: 22g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 168mg | Sodium: 942mg | Potassium: 305mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 141g | Vitamin A: 1244IU | Vitamin C: 0.2mg | Calcium: 215mg | Iron: 1mg
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