This moist Crimson Velvet Bundt Cake is velvety delicate and decadent with a wonderful crumb, a touch of cocoa taste, and a scrumptious cream cheese frosting.
Crimson Velvet Desserts are nice it doesn’t matter what the season, however we particularly love them within the winter months. Preserve this recipe in thoughts for a Christmas dessert, Valentine’s Day dessert, or simply as a result of! It comes collectively very quickly. We hope you take pleasure in it!
Methods to Make Crimson Velvet Bundt Cake
Yow will discover the total, printable Crimson Velvet Bundt Cake recipe on the backside of this publish. Here’s a fast take a look at our steps!
*Chances are you’ll discover that this recipe makes use of a model of the reverse creaming methodology of blending. The order of elements are a bit totally different than the normal creaming methodology, however you’re certain to be pleased with the result- a moist, velvety delicate cake with a wonderful crumb!
- First, preheat oven to 325 levels. Grease and flour a bundt pan (ours had a 12 cup baking capacity- this recipe makes about 7 cups of batter).
- Dry Components: Add the first 5 elements into the bowl of your mixer. Combine on low velocity for at the least 30 seconds to mix (cake flour, sugar, baking powder, cocoa powder, and salt).
- Add the softened butter (reduce into items) to the dry combination, mixing on low velocity simply till it seems like coarse sand. The dry elements will probably be moistened/coated by the butter and can persist with collectively should you press some between two fingers. Do not over combine or it’s going to flip into a big dough-like ball. It ought to look just like the picture beneath.
- Add the eggs one after the other, mixing till blended.Â
- In a medium sized bowl, mix the bitter cream, vegetable oil, milk, crimson meals coloring, vanilla extract, and white vinegar.Â
- With the mixer on lowest velocity steadily pour the bitter cream combination into the mixer. Enhance the velocity to #2 or # 3 (on a KitchenAid mixer). Combine for 2 minutes. Batter will probably be easy and nicely mixed.
- Scoop/pour the batter into the ready bundt cake pan. (If you’re utilizing a smaller bundt cake pan, needless to say the batter should not exceed â…” full in order that the cake has room to rise whereas baking.)
- Bake at 325 levels F for 55 -60 minutes or till an inserted wood skewer comes out clear or with only a few moist crumbs hooked up. Baking occasions could fluctuate and so it’s best to peek in as the tip time approaches and regulate time as wanted.
- Enable the freshly baked cake to cool on a wire rack (within the pan) for about 10 minutes earlier than turning out. Enable it to chill fully earlier than including the frosting.
Cream Cheese Frosting
We won’t have crimson velvet cake with out cream cheese frosting- it’s such a scrumptious pairing!
This frosting is an easy mixture of softened butter, cream cheese, vanilla, and a pinch of salt. It’s so creamy and flavorful. We halved our standard cream cheese frosting recipe which gave us simply sufficient to brighten the highest.
Apply the cream cheese frosting to the cooled cake nonetheless you like- you may’t go flawed! We piped a sample of chunky shells and rosettes utilizing a 1M star piping tip- however you might additionally slather it on high with a small offset spatula.
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Extra Crimson Velvet Desserts
Along with right now’s cake, we’ve got extra crimson velvet cake recipes so that you can strive! As we speak’s recipe is predicated partly on our Crimson velvet cake from scratch pictured beneath. We’ve an amazing Crimson Velvet Pound Cake as nicely which is a little more dense than right now’s recipe however so scrumptious.
Thanks a lot for stopping by right now! We hope that you just take pleasure in this Crimson Velvet Bundt Cake as a lot as we’ve got! Ensure that to take a look at our full assortment of cake recipes and cake adorning tutorials!
For the Cream Cheese Frosting
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Preheat oven to 325 levels. Grease and flour a bundt pan (ours had a 12 cup baking capacity- this recipe makes about 7 cups of batter).
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Add the primary 5 elements into the bowl of your mixer. Combine on low velocity for at the least 30 seconds to mix these dry elements (cake flour, sugar, baking powder, cocoa powder, and salt).
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Add the softened butter (reduce into items) to the dry combination, mixing on low velocity simply till it seems like coarse sand. The dry elements will probably be moistened/coated by the butter and can persist with collectively should you press some between two fingers. Do not over-mix or it’s going to flip into a big dough-like ball.
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Add the eggs one after the other, mixing till blended.Â
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In a medium sized bowl, mix the bitter cream, vegetable oil, milk, crimson meals coloring, vanilla extract, and white vinegar.Â
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With the mixer on lowest velocity steadily pour the bitter cream combination into the mixer. Enhance the velocity to #2 or # 3 (on a KitchenAid mixer). Combine for 2 minutes. Batter will probably be easy and nicely mixed.
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Scoop/pour the batter into the ready bundt cake pan. (If you’re utilizing a smaller bundt cake pan, needless to say the batter should not exceed â…” full in order that the cake has room to rise whereas baking.)
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Bake at 325 levels F for 55 -60 minutes or till an inserted wood skewer comes out clear or with only a few moist crumbs hooked up. Baking occasions could fluctuate and so it’s best to peek in as the tip time approaches and regulate time as wanted.
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Enable the freshly baked cake to chill on a wire rack (within the pan) for about 10 minutes earlier than turning out. Enable it to chill fully earlier than including the frosting.
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Makes roughly 7 cups cake batter
For the Cream Cheese Frosting
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Add the softened butter to the bowl of your mixer. Combine on low to medium velocity till the butter is easy.
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Reduce the softened cream cheese into items and add to the butter, beating at low to medium velocity till included.
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Add the vanilla and salt. Regularly add the powdered sugar beating on low velocity till blended.
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Enhance mixing velocity barely and blend till nicely mixed. Do not over combine or it’s going to grow to be too delicate. If it turns into too delicate, simply refrigerate a short time to agency it up a bit.
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This frosting will pipe finest if used whereas nonetheless chilled. You may make it upfront, refrigerate and when prepared to make use of let it soften barely (don’t microwave) and remix.
Adorning the cake
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As soon as the cake has cooled fully, you may both pipe the frosting onto the highest of the cake or unfold it on with a spatula. (We used a big star 1M piping tip to pipe alternating rows of shells and rosettes).
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Due to the cream cheese frosting, the cake ought to be refrigerated (in an hermetic container, beneath a cake dome, or in a sealed bakery field.) Nonetheless, for the perfect taste and texture, take away from the fridge a number of hours earlier than serving to permit the cake to heat and soften.
