Red Velvet Cake

Ingredients list for Red Velvet Cake

• 1 cup Refined flour (maida)
• 1 teaspoon Baking powder
• 3 Eggs
• 2 teaspoon Vanilla essence
• 1 cup Butter
• 1 1/3 cups Butter
• 1/2 cup Buttermilk
• 2 tablespoons Beetroot juice
• 2 tablespoons Red Colour edible
• For Frosting
• 1 cup Mascarpone cheese
• 1 cup Cream cheese
• 1/2 cup Icing sugar
• 1 cup Whipped cream

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180° C.
2. Sift together refined flour and baking powder into a bowl.
3. Break eggs into another bowl. Add vanilla essence and set aside.
4. Put butter and castor sugar in a third bowl and cream with an electric beater. Add eggs, one by one and cream further. Fold in the flour mixture and beat till well mixed.
5. Add buttermilk, beetroot juice and red colour and beat till well mixed.
6. Pour batter into a spring bottom cake tin till ¾th filled. Place the tray in preheated oven and bake for forty to forty five minutes.
7. Remove from oven, cool and remove from the moulds.
8. For frosting, beat together mascarpone cheese, cream cheese and icing sugar. Fold in the whipped cream.
9. Cut the cake horizontally into three parts. Place one part on a plate and spread the frosting over it. Repeat with the other layers. Evenly spread the frosting on the sides of the cake.
10. Pipe whipped cream on the top of the cake and sprinkle the remaining cake crumbs on top.
11. Serve chilled