Red Velvet Cake
1.
Cut the fresh lemon and squeeze the juice out, filter out the small seeds;
2.
Fill the milk quickly;
3.
Let it stand for a while, about 10 minutes, and you can see some solidification underneath, so that the buttermilk is made;
4.
After the butter is softened at room temperature, add fine sugar and beat until the color is whitish;
5.
After breaking up the eggs, add them to the butter in portions, beating evenly each time and then adding the next time;
6.
Add the sieved red yeast rice powder, cocoa powder, vanilla extract, and baking powder, and mix well;
7.
Pour 1/3 buttermilk, cut and mix evenly;
8.
Sift in 1/3 of the powder, cut and mix evenly;
9.
Then pour 1/3 of the buttermilk, and then sift the powder; add the buttermilk and the powder in turns;
10.
After cutting and mixing evenly, put into two six-inch round molds.;
11.
160 degrees, 40 minutes, put in the middle and lower layer of the oven;
12.
Stick the toothpick into it and it will be cooked without batter, take it out and let it cool and then demould;
13.
Soften the cream cheese and butter and stir well;
14.
Add powdered sugar and beat, add animal cream and a few drops of lemon juice and mix well;
15.
17. Cut the two cakes into slices separately;
16.
Take part of the cheese frosting and spread it evenly on the middle and around the cake;
17.
Add some red pigment to the remaining part and mix well;
18.
Put it into a 6-tooth medium star mouth piping bag;
19.
First squeeze the upper surface into a circle along the edge, and squeeze the flower is to draw a circle;
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Then add the red pigment and stir evenly;
21.
Then continue to draw a circle below to form a flower; gradually darken the color;
22.
Knead the excess cake pieces into small crumbles;
23.
Put the part in the middle of the cake, then use a spoon to put it in a circle along the edge;
24.
Such a beautiful "red velvet cake" is complete.
Tips:
1. One of the important raw materials of red velvet is buttermilk (buttermilk). One of the methods is to squeeze lemon into juice and then add whole milk. Without stirring, let it stand for 10 minutes and it can be used as a substitute for Butter Milk. Product
2. Regarding the method of decorating flowers, in fact, we only need to prepare the flower mouth that we usually squeeze the cookies, and the flower mouth can be slightly tilted and turned in a circle, and pay attention to not leaving a gap in the flower.