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How to make a REAL Red Velvet Cake from scratch



What does red velvet cake taste like? No, it’s not just a chocolate cake with red food coloring! No way! A real red velvet cake has buttermilk, vinegar, a TINY bit of cocoa powder and usually frosted with cream cheese frosting or ermine buttercream. This is the BEST red velvet cake recipe from scratch and it’s so easy to make.

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Red Velvet Cake Ingredients ►
14 ounces (397 g) AP flour
14 ounces (397 g) Granulated Sugar
2 Tablespoons (2 Tbsp) cocoa powder
1 teaspoon (1 tsp) salt
1 teaspoon (1 tsp) baking soda
2 large (2 ) eggs room temp
4 ounces (114 g) vegetable oil
8 ounces (227 g) buttermilk room temp
1 Tablespoons (1 Tbsp) white vinegar
6 ounces (170 g) unsalted butter melted but not hot
1 teaspoons (1 tsp) vanilla
1 Tablespoon (1 Tbsp) super red food coloring I prefer Americolor super red because it doesn’t have a taste

Cream Cheese Frosting Ingredients ►
12 ounces (340 g) cream cheese softened
8 ounces (227 g) unsalted butter softened
1/2 teaspoon (1/2 tsp) orange extract
1/4 teaspoon (1/4 tsp) salt
26 ounces (737 g) powdered sugar sifted

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28 Comments

  7. SavedbyGrace

    I tried this recipe twice – it had by far the best flavour i’ve tried really delicious 👏 but every time once its cooled down its very very firm – not dense but almost like its 5 days old 😂 what could I be doing wrong?

  11. David M. Rediker

    the "red" part of red velvet cake was originally owed to the use of beet sugar/beet juice in the recipe in the South. A REAL red velvet cake doesn't look nucle*r red, or have the bitter taste of red food dye (which is also not good to give ppl with depression or ADHD issues, btw). A real red velvet cake has a more purple-ish hue to it.

  15. gnf

    Hi Liz, can I use dutch cocoa for this recipe, or does it have to be regular? Also, it doesn't really specify in the blog post, so should I mix on my KitchenAid stand mixer for a full ONE minute on speed 4? (Usually when you say medium speed, you mention it's Speed 4 on the KA but I know it's mostly referring to the reverse creaming method, which is not the case here)

  16. red Prince Dwight

    I tried it and it was oh so good. It will replace my faithful recipe of 10 years, which I use to include hot coffee. It’s a big hit with my family. Can’t wait to bake another one. Thx for sharing.

  18. Ayu Purbasari Praditya

    Hi liz, in my city there's no buttermilk, people said that the substitute buttermilk is to mix regular milk and vinegar.. so if i make that homemade buttermilk that already contains vinegar in it, shoud i add another vinegar in the batter recipe?

  19. Partima Chhetri

    Hello, I wanted to ask if i can skip vegetable oil if I don't have it at hand.
    Is there anything I can use to substitute vegetable oil?

  20. Yanya R

    335 ON your blog but here you say 350, can you tell which one…thank you, I look forward making it.

  21. Shel's Kitchen

    Red velvet cake is classically frosted with ermine frosting and more recently made popular with creamed cheese frosting. You make ermine frosting so why not use it with this red velvet? Also there are a lot of white little clumps in your cooked cake.

  23. Brandi Walker

    I’ve done this recipe step by step it’s always bright red before I bake but after it bakes it’s not 🥲

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