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Red Velvet Cake with Pecan Icing
This is a great cake for special occasions such as Christmas or Valentine's Day because of its deep red colour.
Ingredients
Serves: 12
- Cake
- 1 1/2 cups (300g) white sugar
- 1 cup (250ml) vegetable oil
- 2 eggs
- 50g red food colouring
- 1 teaspoon distilled white vinegar
- 1 cup (250ml) buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon bicarb soda
- 2 1/2 cups (310g) self raising flour
- 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
- Pecan Icing
- 225g cream cheese, softened
- 125g butter, softened
- 4 cups (480g) icing sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
- 1/2 cup (60g) chopped pecans
Directions
Preparation:30min ›
Cook:25min ›
Ready in:55min
- Cake: Preheat oven to 180 degrees C. Grease and flour three 20cm round cake tins.
- In a large bowl, mix together sugar, oil and eggs. Add food colouring and vinegar to buttermilk. Add bicarb soda to flour.
- Add flour mixture and buttermilk mixtures alternately to the sugar mixture. Mix well. Stir the vanilla into the batter.
- Pour batter into prepared cake tins. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, or until done. Remove from oven, and cool on wire racks.
- Pecan Icing: Mix together cream cheese, butter, icing sugar and vanilla. Stir in the pecans.
- To Assemble: Stack the cake layers with the pecan icing as a filling between, use remaining pecan icing to coat the whole cake.
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Original Red Velvet cake is, essentially, a lightly flavored chocolate cake. This recipe is missing the two tablespoons of cocoa powder that are suppose to be included in the cake batter. - 03 Feb 2007 (Review from Allrecipes USA and Canada)
I made this today to take to hubby's work Xmas party tonight. This was a huge hit! My changes were to add 1 tsp of cocoa and make sure that the buttermilk and eggs were at room temp. I left out the pecans in the frosting. I used cake flour and still sifted all of the dry ingredients. I used two 9 inch rounds that baked in 27 minutes. I topped with strawberries. I will make this again. Thank you. - 10 Dec 2005 (Review from Allrecipes USA and Canada)
This is almost the same as my grandmother's recipe, except she uses cake flour, 2 cups of oil and 1 tablespoon of cocoa. We also use 1 cup of pecans in the frosting. - 22 Apr 2005 (Review from Allrecipes USA and Canada)