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Red Velvet Cake With A Difference Recipe

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Red Velvet Cake With A Difference
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Ingredients
19
Count
Nutrition
783
Calories
Total time
30
Minutes
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Ingredients:

  • 100 g butter
  • 350 g sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 30 g cocoa
  • 2 bottles (30ml each) red food colouring
  • 250 g flour
  • 5 ml salt
  • 250 ml buttermilk
  • frosting
  • 250 ml milk
  • 45 g flour
  • 220 g sugar
  • 230 g butter
  • chocolate vermicelli to sprinkle

Directions:

  1. Pre-heat the oven to 180C
  2. Prepare two cake tins (20cm)
  3. Cake
  4. Cream the butter and the sugar until light and creamy
  5. Add the eggs one by one, mix well after each
  6. Mix the cocoa, boiling water and food colouring to form a thick paste
  7. Add this to the butter mixture and blend
  8. Sift flour and salt together - keep seperate
  9. Mix buttermilk and vanilla essence - keep seperate
  10. Now add the flour mixture and the buttermilk mixture alternately, untill blended well
  11. Lastly mix the baking soda and the vinegar and add to the cake mixture.
  12. Divide the mixture into the two baking tins
  13. Bake for 30 minutes (or until cake tester comes out clean)
  14. Frosting
  15. Add a little of the milk to the flour and mix to a smooth paste
  16. Add the sugar to the rest of the milk and bring to boil, stirring frequently
  17. Cream the butter until light and soft
  18. Add the vanilla essence to the butter cream and blend well
  19. Add the milk mixture to the Butter mix and beat untill it has a light and fluffy texture. (like whipped cream)
  20. Let cake and frosting cool down
  21. Spread some of the frosting on the first layer, add the second layer and 'frost' the cake right round.
  22. Sprinkle with Chocolate Vermicilli (or I sometimes crumble Cadburys Flake over the top)
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 782.97 Kcal (3278 kJ)
Calories from fat 363.94 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 40.44g 62%
Cholesterol 133.85mg 45%
Sodium 1062.72mg 44%
Potassium 193.17mg 4%
Total Carbs 101.1g 34%
Sugars 75.65g 303%
Dietary Fiber 2.74g 11%
Protein 7.03g 14%
Vitamin A 0.4mg 14%
Iron 1.7mg 10%
Calcium 169.1mg 17%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 332.55 Kcal (1392 kJ)
Calories from fat 154.58 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 17.18g 62%
Cholesterol 56.85mg 45%
Sodium 451.37mg 44%
Potassium 82.05mg 4%
Total Carbs 42.94g 34%
Sugars 32.13g 303%
Dietary Fiber 1.16g 11%
Protein 2.99g 14%
Vitamin A 0.2mg 14%
Iron 0.7mg 10%
Calcium 71.8mg 17%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Find out how many calories should you eat.

Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Recipe Tags

Weightwatchers Points

  • 18.5
    Points
  • 22
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • saturated fat free

Bad Points

  • High in Sodium,
  • High in Sugar

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