Grammy's Kitchen · Red Velvet Cake · Red Velvet Cake
One of 22 red velvet cake recipes we measured
from therecipecritic.com
It ranks #3 of 22 for richness among the red velvet cake recipes we compared. 1 cooks on therecipecritic.com rate it 5.0★.
Every ingredient resolved to grams, expressed against the recipe's own base — next to the median of all 22.
| this recipe | typical | |
|---|---|---|
| fat | 148% | 113% |
| total sugar | 200% | 292% |
| egg | 33% | 37% |
| leavener | 4% | 2% |
| salt | 1% | 2% |
| liquid | 122% | 92% |
| dairy | 274% | 194% |
| chocolate | 7% | 5% |
| acid | 2% | 2% |
| flour strength | 1.0 | 1.0 |
Adapts cleanly: egg-free, gluten-free, nut-free (documented swaps, applied on the dish page)
Weights computed by us.
| 300 g | 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour |
| 21 g | 1/4 cup Dutch-processed cocoa powder |
| 300 g | 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar |
| 7 g | 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda |
| 4 g | 1 teaspoon baking powder |
| 3 g | 1/2 teaspoon salt |
| 368 g | 1 1/2 cups room-temperature buttermilk |
| 218 g | 1 cup vegetable oil |
| 100 g | 2 large room-temperature eggs |
| 5 g | 1 teaspoon vinegar |
| 9 g | 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract |
| 2 tablespoons liquid red food color | |
| 454 g | 2 (8-ounce) blocks room-temperature cream cheese |
| 227 g | 8 ounces room-temperature unsalted butter |
| 4 g | 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract |
| 300 g | 1 1/2 cups powdered sugar |
Method: 11 steps, published by therecipecritic.com — open the original ↗ or use bake mode for a follow-along with a screen that stays on.
“Thank you for sharing this delightfully easy, mouthwateringly delicious recipe. Have baked this cake several times since I first tried it a few weeks back and it’s been a huge success each time!” — a cook, 5.0★