# The Best Easy Red Velvet Cake

This recipe is for a red velvet cake that is soft, moist, velvety, and has a delicious balanced flavor.

- Total time: 10 min
- Cuisine: American
- Category: Baked Goods
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup oil
- 1 cup melted butter
- 3 eggs
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 tsp vinegar
- 1 tsp red food color
- 2 cups flour
- 1 tsp corn starch
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 tbsp cocoa powder
- 1 tbsp hot water
- 1 cup room temperature butter
- 1 cup cream cheese
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 1 cup cake crumbs

## Instructions

1. Whisk together sugar, oil, and melted butter for a couple of minutes.
2. Add eggs and vanilla, whisk thoroughly until smooth.
3. Add in buttermilk, vinegar, and red food color; whisk again until combined.
4. Sift in flour, cornstarch, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
5. Whisk gently until no lumps remain.
6. In a separate bowl, bloom cocoa powder in hot water and fold that into the cake batter.
7. Divide batter between three pans and bake.
8. Make a cream cheese frosting by whisking together room temperature butter, cream cheese, and vanilla until smooth.
9. Slowly whisk in powdered sugar.
10. Trim off the domes from the cakes and layer them with a generous amount of cream cheese frosting.
11. Cover with more frosting outside and decorate with cake crumbs.

## Equipment

- whisk
- mixing bowls
- measuring cups
- measuring spoons
- oven
- cake pans
- electric mixer
- spatula
- cake decorating tools

## Source

- Original video: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1ELEMJYHv9/
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- Extracted: 2025-01-31

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