
The Red Velvet Sponge cake
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Fluffy and soft in mouth sponge cakes can be a dream for many.
More so if it has to be a red velvet cake without synthetic food colours!!
Let's bake!!
Ingredients -
- milk - 1/2 cup
- vinegar -1 tbsp
- Powdered sugar -1 cup
- Curd -1/2 cup
- Oil-1/2 cup
- Vanilla essence -1 tbsp
- Oyecurry's beetroot powder -2&1/2 Tbsp
- All purpose Flour(maida) -1&1/2 cup
- Baking powder -1 tpbs
- Baking soda -1/2 tbsp
- Cocoa powder -1 tbsp
Process:
- Mix vinegar in milk and keep aside.
- Take powdered sugar in a wide bowl and add curd in it and whisky well.
- Add the vanilla essence and oil and whisk well again.
- Mix Oyecurry's beetroot powder and beat untill the mix gets the beetroot stain.
- Now sift the all purpose flour along with the baking powder,baking soda and coco powder into the whisked mix and beat it for 5 minutes.
- Transfer the beaten cake mix into a cake mould and bake it in a preheated pan/oven on low heat for 45-50 minutes.
- Do the baking check with a knife of tooth pick and let it cool. Demould onto a tray/plate.
- Cut into slices and serve as it is or with chocholate sauce.
Tip: The brilliant red colour of the beetroot powder does fade after baking. If bright red colour required, consider adding half teaspoon of edible cake colour into the batter.