How to make a red velvet cake

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How to make a red velvet cake. tabloid! gets a step by step guide on how to make a red velvet cake from the experts at Cake Story in Dubai. See more at: http://gulfnews.com/gntv

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00:00On every Valentine's Day, I do something very personal.

00:11I bake red velvet cupcakes and distribute it to each and every person I know who means

00:15a lot to me.

00:16So here we are today at Cake Story demonstrating the red velvet cake to you.

00:22There's butter for the moistness, sugar for the sweetness, flour which gives it the

00:28moist structure and eggs that make it light and fluffy.

00:31We're going to take 90 grams of butter which we're going to cream together with the icing

00:36sugar or the powdered sugar.

00:38We've got 145 grams of flour which we're going to combine with 15 grams of cocoa.

00:43We're going to add in a pinch of salt and some baking soda.

00:47We've got two eggs, we've got a quarter cup of milk, half a cup of yogurt, vanilla extract

00:53and red food colouring.

00:55We're going to start with creaming off the butter.

00:58You're going to take room temperature butter, not too hot so that it's easy for you to cream it.

01:04It takes a couple of minutes to just cream the butter and once you add the sugar, you

01:08need to keep mixing till you get the right texture.

01:11The texture would be light and fluffy.

01:13The colour will become lighter.

01:15We started with low speed and now we're on speed level 2 and gradually you can increase

01:21your speed.

01:22Do you see the texture now changing?

01:24It's getting creamier, lighter.

01:26That's when you know you're coming close to creaming it perfectly.

01:31Unlike butter and sugar, egg doesn't mix in with the two ingredients very well.

01:35So if one egg is added at a time, make sure it's evenly mixed with the butter and sugar

01:40and only then you're ready to add the next one.

01:46So as you see, now I've incorporated the egg into this earlier mixture and I'm going to

01:50add the next egg after this.

01:53I'm going to add the next egg now.

02:04Now we come to the dry ingredients.

02:06I'm going to mix all the dry ingredients together.

02:08That's the flour, refined flour, the cocoa powder, half a teaspoon of baking soda and

02:16a pinch of salt.

02:21And now I'm going to take all the wet ingredients together.

02:25That's the milk, the yogurt and then I mix the red colour into this.

02:36I'm going to be incorporating the vanilla now.

02:39Just give it a quick mix and finally we'll fold in the wet and dry ingredients alternately.

02:46I'm going to add a bit of the dry ingredients first.

02:51Beat it a little.

02:55And alternate it with the wet ingredients.

02:59I'm going to scrape the sides to get the flour into the centre.

03:03Finally, I'll scrape the sides, get all the flour in the centre, make sure all the ingredients

03:22are mixed properly.

03:23So I always turn it upside down to make sure everything is evenly mixed.

03:28One last mix and we're done.

03:33Now this batch is perfect for a 1kg cake.

03:38So what we're going to do is take two 6 inch pans.

03:41I'm going to line the cake pan with butter paper and I'm also going to use some pan coating spray.

03:52That's about it.

03:56In case you don't have the pan coating spray, you can just use some melted butter and run

04:00it around the sides and the base.

04:10So now it's time to put these cakes for baking.

04:13I've got a professional oven here, that's why the temperatures are slightly different.

04:18But for all you home bakers, you're going to bake at 180 on the option upper and lower

04:23for about 20 minutes.

04:25So while the cake is being baked, we're going to start making the frosting.

04:28We're going to do cream cheese frosting which is very simple, just 4 basic ingredients.

04:33We're going to take 50g of unsalted butter, 60g of icing sugar, 230g of Philadelphia cream

04:40cheese, full fat and just a little bit of vanilla.

04:44We'll start beating the butter.

04:46Beat the butter till it's nice and soft.

04:50I'm going to add the icing sugar.

04:59Only once the icing sugar is completely mixed with the butter, we're going to add the cream cheese.

05:12Don't over beat the cream cheese otherwise the filling will begin to split.

05:16So make sure you mix just enough for it to blend.

05:29Finally, I'm going to add the vanilla.

05:34And that's your ready cream cheese frosting.

05:37Now once our cakes are ready, we're going to level the cake out.

05:39So I'm going to take a bread knife and I'm just going to level it out.

05:43There you go.

05:46And now what we're going to do is take a little bit of the cream and place it on the

05:50board to make sure that the cake doesn't move while icing it.

05:53I'm going to take a dollop of cream and just sandwich the two cakes with the cream.

05:59We'll put the crumbs down so that it's easier for them to spread.

06:05Again, I'm going to take some cream and paste it on top.

06:11I'm also going to add some cream on the sides to bind the cake together and to get a neat look.

06:17So we've crumb coated the cake.

06:18We've filled it with some filling inside and worked on the sides as well.

06:22And now it's time to ice the cake.

06:24So what I've done is I've taken the simple frosting that we had and added some pink color into it.

06:29A few drops of red would give you pink.

06:31And we're trying to do an ombre cake.

06:33So we're starting with the pink, going into a lighter pink and then maybe a shade lighter.

06:38So I'm just going to add a little bit of pink.

06:40Now it's time to do an ombre cake.

06:41So we're starting with the pink, going into a lighter pink and then maybe a shade lighter.

06:46So I've taken a round tip, tip number 8, which I'm going to use to create this design.

06:53So now that we've completed the sides, we're going to start working on the top.

06:56The same technique, just press and pull down.

06:59Press and bring down.

07:02Now you can leave the space empty to put a personalized message or you can complete it using the same pattern.

07:08We're done with the cake now.

07:09The shading is looking perfect.

07:11You've got three tones.

07:12We started with a darker pink, gone into a milder color and then finished off with an off-white.

07:17You can also embellish your cake using some fondant hearts or sprinkles.

07:23So that's your perfect Valentine's Day cake.

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