Red Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Learn how to make Red Velvet Cake using beetroot puree with cream cheese frosting and fondant decorations.
Servings 0
Ingredients
- Whole wheat flour 1 ½ cup
- Sugar 1 cup
- Baking soda 1 tsp
- Milk ½ cup + 2 tbsp
- Vineger/lemon 1 tbsp
- Oil ⅔ cup
- Vanilla essence 2 tsp
- Salt 1 pinch
- Cocoa powder 2 tbsp
- Beetroot puree ½ cup + 3 tbsp
Beetroot Puree
- Beetroot 1 medium + 2 small
- Water to cook beetroot
Decoration
- Cream Cheese Frosting as required
- Marshmallow Fondant as required
Instructions
Making Beetroot puree
- Cook the beetroot with skin for three whistles in a cooker
- Peal the skin and puree the beetroot finely in a mixer. No need to add water.
- I got little less than 1 cup of puree from beetroot I used.
Making the cake
- Sieve the dry ingredients flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, salt together for 5-6 times and keep it aside.
- Grease the pan with butter and dust with flour and keep it ready.
- Take a bowl, add milk, oil, sugar, vineger, vanilla essence and mix till sugar is dissolved and keep it aside for 5 minutes
- Now add the dry ingredients and mix with spatula till everything is combined.
- Now add the beetroot puree and mix. Use beetroot puree as required to get bright red colour.
- Taste the batter and make sure there is no beetroot taste. You can adjust cocoa powder if beetroot taste is there.
- Preheat the oven at 160°C for ten minutes.
- Bake in the same temperature for 35-40 minutes till the toothpick inserted came out clean.
- Cool the cake completely in wire rack.
Decorating the cake
- After the cake cools down trim the sides and doom of the cake and we will use it for decorating.
- Then cut the cake into half using knife. You can bake the cake in two different cake tins to make it easy too.
- Take cake tin and apply little frosting on bottom.
- Place the one half of the cake on it.
- Apply the cream cheese frosting on top of it.
- Place the other half of the cake on top of it.
- Apply the frosting on top of it and on the sides of the cake. I did the crumb coating on one side since I used fondant to cover it.
- Roll the fondant in medium thickness and cover the part of the cake and smooth it with smoothener.
- Add red color to part of fondant and knead it well. Roll them and make heart shapes from it and cover the sides of the fondant.
- Use the leftover trimmed cake and scramble them with your hands and decorate the half of the cake. You can use grater too for this.
- Now the yummy Red Velvet Cake is ready.
Notes
Mixture was nice red color before baking. But after baking it turned to reddish brown colour. I think it may be due to cocoa powder. Will surely update when I try next time
You can make any fondant shapes to decorate the cake
You can add few drops of red food color instead of beetroot puree
You can substitute wheat flour with maida