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Best Red Velvet Cake Recipe by Ameera Aboulseoud


Tue 06 Oct 2020 | 09:26 PM
Sara Goda

Even though the red velvet cake is a new dessert, it is no doubt one of the most delicious desserts ever. It has many different ingredients and recipes but today we have the Egyptian engineer Ameera Aboulseoud’s recipe.

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Aboulseoud used the red velvet cake recipe in the book “Baking Bible” by Rose Levy Bereanbaum to develop her own recipe. She says: I didn’t use the exact ingredients but swapped some them including the ¾ cup of buttermilk which I swapped with 1 cup of milk with 1 tablespoon of vinegar added to it and the raspberry sauce which I didn’t make but instead made frosting that is not found in the original recipe. However, I used only the egg whites like the original recipe instead of whole eggs, baking powder and baking soda.

[caption id="attachment_156222" align="aligncenter" width="824"] Baking Bible[/caption]

Before starting anything preheat the oven to 175 degrees.

  • Ingredients:

 

  • 4 egg whites.
  • 1 tablespoon of red coloring powder or 2 ½ tablespoons of red liquid color.
  • 2 teaspoons of vanilla.
  • 2 ½ cups of flour.
  • 1 tablespoon + 2 teaspoons of baking powder.
  • 1 ¼ teaspoons of cacao powder.
  • ¾ a teaspoon of salt.
  • 1 ¼ cups of sugar.
  • 5 tablespoons of butter.
  • 1/3 a cup oil.
  • 1 cup of milk with 1 tablespoon of vinegar added to it.

 

  • Instructions:

[caption id="attachment_156223" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Egg whites mixture[/caption]

  • Mix the egg whites, red color and vanilla together till the color is dissolved.

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  • Mix all the dry ingredients together till well combined.

[caption id="attachment_156225" align="aligncenter" width="960"] Butter-sugar mixture[/caption]

  • 0Whip the sugar, butter and oil together for 2 minutes or till it turns creamy before adding the dry ingredients gradually along with the milk-vinegar mixture.

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  • Add the egg whites mixture and whisk on low speed before increasing the speed to high to ensure that everything is well combined.

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  • Pour the batter into a cake pan before placing it in the oven for about 45 to 50 minutes according to the oven.
  • Let the cake cool for 15 minutes before adding the frosting and serving.

 

  • Frosting Ingredients:

 

  • 450 gm of cream cheese.
  • ¾ a cup of butter.
  • 5 ½ cups of powdered sugar.
  • ½ a teaspoon of vanilla.
  • A pinch of salt.
  • Instructions:

 

  • Whisk everything together on high speed till it turns fluffy.
  • Let the frosting refrigerate for a while before topping the red cake velvet with it.
  • Serve and Enjoy!

 

By Pasant Elzaitony

Contributed by Sara Goda