RED VELVET CAKE (NATURAL / NO FOOD COLOUR )

An incredibly moist, soft and buttery cake made from pureed beets giving it the red colour and frosted with a light and airy cream cheese.

INGREDIENTS

2 cups all purpose flour / maida

2 and 1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1 cup unsalted butter, softened

1 and 1/2 cup powdered sugar

3 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/2 cup buttermilk

For buttermilk

1 cup milk, at room temperature

1 teaspoon lemon juice or vinegar.

For Beet Puree

Beet - 1 Medium ,cleaned and boiled with some water so that it is soft

1/4 cup buttermilk

Cream Cheese frosting

1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened

8 oz / 226 gram cream cheese, softened

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1/4 teaspoon salt

4 cups powdered sugar

INSTRUCTIONS

To prepare buttermilk, add lemon juice or vinegar into the milk and stir. Set aside for five minutes. After five minutes, your buttermilk is ready.

Note : It will curdle and thicken more as it sits and that is normal.

For the beetroot puree, pulse the beets till it is coarsely chopped. Slowly add 1/4 cup buttermilk to it as needed make a smooth puree. Set aside.

Preheat oven to 180 degree C. Prepare a cake tin with parchment paper and set this aside as well.

Sift the dry ingredients - flour , baking powder, salt and cocoa at least twice and set this aside as well.

Beat the butter until it is light and fluffy . Add the sugar and mix till creamy. To this add the eggs one by one beating it well to incorporate fully after each addition, Mix in the vanilla essence .

Fold in the flour and buttermilk in parts starting and ending with the flour mix. Add the beet puree and gently fold in till incorporated fully .

Transfer batter to the cake tin and bake for 30 to 40 minutes or till a toothpick comes out clean. Remove from the oven and place the pans on a cooling rack . Cool in pan .

While the cake is cooling, combine butter and cream cheese in the bowl of a stand mixer (or you may use an electric mixer) and beat until creamy, well-combined, and lump-free.

Add vanilla extract and salt and stir well to combine. With mixer on low, gradually add powdered sugar until completely combined.

Frost the cake fully and decorate as desired. Enjoy !

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