Red Velvet Cake Recipe

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Red Velvet Cake
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Ingredients
17
Count
Nutrition
274
Calories
Total time
90
Minutes
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Ingredients:

  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1 oz red food coloring
  • 1/2 tsp salt
  • 2 cups flour
  • 1 cup butter or 1 cup margarine
  • 1 cup buttermilk
  • 1 1/2 tsp baking soda
  • 1 tbsp cocoa
  • 2 eggs
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • 1 tbsp vinegar
  • 1/2 cup butter or 1/2 cup margarine
  • 1 lb confectioners' sugar
  • 2 tsp vanilla
  • 1/4 tsp salt

Directions:

  1. Cake: Cream together butter, sugar, and eggs. Beat until fluffy.
  2. Make a paste with vinegar and cocoa. Add to the fluffy mixture of butter, sugar, and eggs. Mix.
  3. Sift together flour, salt, and baking soda. Mix in a little at a time to the fluffy mixture until you have added it all.
  4. Mix in a little buttermilk at a time until you have added it all. Mix in vanilla and red food coloring last.
  5. Grease and flour 2 8 in cake pans. Makes a 2 layer cake.
  6. Bake at 350 for about 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean.
  7. Flip upside down onto wire racks to cool.
  8. Icing: Cream together cream cheese and butter or margarine.
  9. Add vanilla and mix.
  10. Add salt and mix.
  11. Slowly add confectioners sugar or 10x sugar a little at a time until you have it all incorporated. Keep mixing. This is easier if you have a stand mixer as it takes a long time of mixing to completely dissolve all of the sugar. If you have not mixed enough, it will taste like powdered sugar.
  12. Add the chopped pecans last and mix.
  13. While the cakes are still cooling, put the icing in the fridge.
  14. After the cakes are cool, flip over one layer on to a plate or pie plate. Ice the top of this layer generously. Set the second layer on top of the iced layer. The part of the cake that was touching the wire racks should be the part of the layers that are facing the middle.Finish icing. Refrigerate to firm up the icing.
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 273.97 Kcal (1147 kJ)
Calories from fat 151.56 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 16.84g 26%
Cholesterol 37.11mg 12%
Sodium 320.54mg 13%
Potassium 71.54mg 2%
Total Carbs 29.47g 10%
Sugars 19.99g 80%
Dietary Fiber 1.53g 6%
Protein 2.73g 5%
Vitamin C 0.1mg 0%
Vitamin A 0.1mg 3%
Iron 0.8mg 4%
Calcium 47.7mg 5%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 418.4 Kcal (1752 kJ)
Calories from fat 231.47 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 25.72g 26%
Cholesterol 56.67mg 12%
Sodium 489.52mg 13%
Potassium 109.25mg 2%
Total Carbs 45.01g 10%
Sugars 30.52g 80%
Dietary Fiber 2.33g 6%
Protein 4.17g 5%
Vitamin C 0.1mg 0%
Vitamin A 0.1mg 3%
Iron 1.2mg 4%
Calcium 72.8mg 5%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Find out how many calories should you eat.

Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Recipe Tags

Weightwatchers Points

  • 6.6
    Points
  • 8
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • saturated fat free

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