Red Velvet Heart Cake

Red Velvet cake will surprise everyone and become one of your favorite cakes! Beautiful, delicious, tender.
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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 8 % 5 g
Fats 40 % 25 g
Carbohydrates 52 % 33 g
376 kcal
GI: 6 / 0 / 94

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 1 h 20 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to make a cake "Red Velvet": In a bowl, sift the flour, add soda, baking powder, salt and 1 tbsp. l. cocoa powder. Mix everything thoroughly.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    In another deep bowl, break 3 eggs, add sugar, beat with a mixer at high speed for 3 minutes, until white. Pour in the vegetable oil and mix.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    In kefir, dissolve the red food coloring and mix. Pour red kefir into a bowl with eggs. Mix with a mixer. In two stages, add the dry ingredients to the red dough and mix.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Grease the baking dish (diameter 25-27 cm) with butter and pour in half of the dough. We send the dough to a preheated 180 degree oven for 20 minutes. We check the readiness of the cakes with a toothpick - it should be dry (in no case over-dry the biscuit). We also bake the second cake.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Proceed to the preparation of the cream. Beat mascarpone (cream cheese) and powdered sugar with a mixer. In another bowl, pour very cold cream, whisk until stable peaks. Mix cream with whipped cream cheese.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Cut off the sides and the top of both cakes. Cut the sponge cake into crumbs.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    The bottom cake is liberally greased with butter cream and covered with a second cake. The top and sides of the cake are also lubricated with cream. Sponge cake with butter cream sprinkle with crumbs and decorate as desired.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    We send the cake "Red velvet" in the refrigerator for a few hours or overnight. Bon appetit!

So that the oven has time to heat up to the desired temperature, turn it on in advance (10-20 minutes before the start of cooking).

Keep in mind that everyone has different ovens. The temperature and cooking time may differ from those specified in the recipe. To make any baked dish successful, use the useful information about the features of ovens !

All the secrets of making a tall, beautiful, lush sponge cake read the article about the biscuit dough .

Is it possible to replace baking powder with soda, how to add them correctly so that the baking is lush, how to avoid an unpleasant soda taste and much more, read the article "Baking powder or baking soda - which is better?"   

Calorie content of the products possible in the dish

  • Chicken egg - 157   kcal/100g
  • Egg white - 45   kcal/100g
  • Egg powder - 542   kcal/100g
  • Egg yolk - 352   kcal/100g
  • Ostrich egg - 118   kcal/100g
  • Whole durum wheat flour fortified - 333   kcal/100g
  • Whole durum wheat flour, universal - 364   kcal/100g
  • Flour krupchatka - 348   kcal/100g
  • Flour - 325   kcal/100g
  • Granulated sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Kefir fat - 62   kcal/100g
  • Kefir of 1% fat content - 38   kcal/100g
  • Low-fat kefir - 30   kcal/100g
  • Kefir "doctor beefy" 1,8% fat content - 45   kcal/100g
  • Kefir 2.5% fat content - 53   kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873   kcal/100g
  • Cocoa powder - 374   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Cream 35% - 337   kcal/100g
  • Cream 40% - 362   kcal/100g
  • Baking powder - 79   kcal/100g
  • Powdered sugar - 374   kcal/100g
  • Baking soda - 0   kcal/100g
  • Mascarpone cheese - 412   kcal/100g
  • Food Coloring - 0   kcal/100g

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