Hey everyone and welcome back to my channel Cakes by MK. In today's video i'm going to
be sharing with you guys my super delicious and moist red velvet cake recipe. If you're
new to my channel welcome and if you enjoy this video please give it a thumbs up below
also a quick shout out to today's sponsor Squarespace. Stay tuned to learn more about
them later on in this video. Apart from that let's get right into this red velvet cake
so the first step to making this red velvet cake is to cream together some softened unsalted butter
along with some white granulated sugar and unflavored vegetable oil
i'm using canola oil here but any unflavored vegetable oil will be fine
i'll be using my hand mixer on a medium speed to cream up my mixture and you can do this in a stand
mixer as well. As always full quantities to all the ingredients will be in the description box below
so about three to four minutes later your mixture should be much lighter and fluffier in consistency
and then the next step is to crack in one of your eggs then mix it with your mixer
for about 15 seconds or so and then crack in your next egg and do the same thing
now once that's mixed well the next step is to add in your vanilla, white vinegar
and your red liquid food coloring and then mix that together until it's well combined
next i'm going to sift all my dry ingredients together in a separate bowl
you can do this beforehand as well. So first i've got my all-purpose flour,
cornstarch, salt, baking powder and then my cocoa powder
and then i'm just using a whisk to mix it all together. You can use a spoon or fork for this
as well if you don't have a whisk. Now before i add in the rest of my ingredients i'm just
getting all the batter off of my attachments and then i'm finishing off by adding half of my dry
ingredients to my wet mixture, gently folding that through with a spatula until it's just combined
and then i'm going to add in my buttermilk at this stage and then i'm going to fold
that through until it's just combined and then to finish off i'm adding the rest of my
dry ingredients and then just doing the same thing so gently folding the mixture through
until everything is just combined. You want to make sure that you don't over mix your batter
so once the batter is ready i'm going to pour it into an 8 inch cake tin which i
have coated with my homemade cake release to make sure my cake doesn't stick to my pan
it's really easy to make i'll post a link below to that video if you want to check it out
and then once the batter is all in i'm just giving my pan a little shake to distribute the batter
evenly and then also a few bangs to get rid of any large air bubbles in my batter so that we don't
have any holes when we come to cutting through our cake and now this cake is going to go into the
oven at 160 degrees celsius for about 55 minutes. Now while my cake is baking away in the oven i'm
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that let's go check on our red velvet cake. So the cake is out of the oven now it smells amazing and
it has a beautiful color to it. Now the next thing that i'm going to do is turn it out onto my cake
stand, you can also let it cool on a wire rack if you have one. Now my cake should just slide
right out because of the cake release that i used and yeah it's come out beautifully but if you are
having a bit of trouble then you can just run a knife around the edge of your cake tin to help
release the sides of the cake from the tin and this should just help it come out a lot easier
so as you can see we have some gorgeous sides to this cake and now we're just
going to let it completely cool before we come back and ice it. So it's been
a couple of hours now my cake is nice and cool and now we're going to ice it
so i'm using my flour buttercream icing today also known as ermine buttercream and i'm just
doing some simple piping on the top of my cake using a large round tip nozzle. I really love
this buttercream because it has a beautiful silky texture to it and it isn't too sweet either. I'll
post a link below to a video i've done on this if you guys want to go ahead and check it out. Okay
and that's my cake all done, just keeping it really simple today and now we're ready to cut into it
so as you can see this cake has a beautiful crumb to it, it's super soft and moist and just full of
flavor and that ermine buttercream is the perfect match for this cake
so that is basically how i create my red velvet cake. I hope you guys enjoyed this video
and i hope you guys enjoyed the recipe as well. Let me know in the comment section
below if you try it out and what you think but apart from that thank you
guys so much for watching Cakes by MK and i'll see you guys in the next video