Recipe: Dark Red Velvet Cake for Valentine’s Day
Originally Posted on February 13, 2012

Summary: This Red Velvet Cake Recipe lends itself well to use at Valentine’s Day.  Simply buy your cupcake papers (I bought cupcake papers with red hearts on them), and fill 3/4 of the way. Frost with your favorite cream cheese icing recipe!

Ingredients

• 1 tbsp. baking soda
• 2- 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 2 tbsp. baking cocoa
• 1 ½ cups sugar
• 1 tsp. salt
• 2 ounces red food coloring
• ½ cup butter, softened
• 2/3 cup buttermilk
• 2 eggs
• 1/3 cup sweet milk (regular milk)
• 2 tbsp. apple cider vinegar

Instructions

1. Combine cocoa, flour, sugar, salt, food coloring, and vanilla with butter.
2. Beat in buttermilk; add eggs beaten with the sweet milk. Mix ingredients well with an electric mixer.
3. Add vinegar and baking soda, stir thoroughly.
4. Place in two greased and floured cake pans or cupcake papers.
5. Bake at 325 degrees approximately 25-30 minutes, or until cake tests done.
6. Cool and frost with cream cheese icing.
7. Top with chocolate chips and/or chopped walnuts.

Preparation time: 20 minutes 

Cooking time: 25-30 minutes

Number of servings (yield): 8

My rating: 5 stars ★★★★★ 1 review

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