Ingredients for Red Velvet Cake

Series Summary

Red Velvet Cake is one of the most distinctive cakes around, known for its dark red, or red-brown color and rich, sweet chocolate flavor. Though often made without chocolate flavoring, red velvet cake ingredients usually include buttermilk, butter, flour, cocoa powder, and either beets or red food coloring to achieve it's distinctive color. Red velvet cakes are most popular in the Southern United States, though several Canadian restaurants and bakeries serve the delicious treat as a signature dessert.

In this free video series, our expert baker will teach you how to make a delicious red velvet cake recipe with cream cheese frosting. Learn how to mix the dry and wet ingredients, beat the butter and add the eggs for red velvet cake. Get tips from our expert on mixing in each of the ingredients, baking red velvet cake, and making the frosting for this dessert. Finally, learn how to frost each layer of this red velvet cake with expert tips in this free video recipe.

Video Transcript

"Hi! I'm Jennifer Cail and on behalf of Expert Village, I am going to show you how to make this delicious traditional Red Velvet Cake. For our first step, we are going to go over the ingredients that you will need for our Red Velvet Cake. First we will need cake flour. Now make sure that you use actual cake flour instead of all purpose flour. There is as difference. Next, we will need granulated sugar. One stick or half cup of butter. We will need some unsweetened cocoa powder, vanilla, red food dye, baking soda and baking powder, 2 eggs, some salt and buttermilk. Also, just a couple of tablespoons of white distilled vinegar and then for the cream cheese frosting we will need one pound of cream cheese, another stick of butter and some powder sugar. And all of this put together, we will have a delicious Red Velvet Cake that will be fantastic for your celebration. "