The Accurate Crimson Velvet Cake

Factors

Cake:

• cooking spray

• 1 ½ cups all-goal flour

• 1 ½ cups cake flour

• ½ cup cocoa powder

• 1 ½ teaspoons baking soda

• ½ teaspoon kosher salt

• 1 ½ cups buttermilk

• 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

• 3 ¾ cups brown sugar

• 1 ½ sticks unsalted butter, softened

• 3 eggs, at room temperature

Ermine Frosting:

• 1 cup white sugar

• 1 cup complete milk

• ½ cup all-goal flour, sifted

• ½ teaspoon salt

• 2 cups unsalted butter, softened

• 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract

1. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F (163 degrees C). Line the bottoms of three 9-roam cake pans with parchment paper. Spray the sides with cooking spray.

2. Sift all-goal flour, cake flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt collectively in a medium bowl.

3. Microwave buttermilk stunning unless warmth, about 30 seconds. Saunter in vanilla extract.

4. Beat brown sugar and butter collectively in a bowl unless gentle and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add eggs one at a time, mixing thoroughly earlier than every addition. Mix in the flour mixture and buttermilk in 3 additions unless fully combined. Let mixer bustle on low for five minutes. Distribute the cake batter between the prepared cake pans.

5. Bake in the preheated oven unless a toothpick inserted into the guts the desserts comes out neat, 30 to 35 minutes.

6. Let wintry for quarter-hour in the pans. Turn desserts out and let wintry utterly on a wire rack, as a minimum Half-hour. Conceal with plastic wrap and relax for no lower than 1 hour or in a single day.

7. Meanwhile, hotfoot sugar, milk, flour, and salt collectively in a medium saucepan for the frosting. Cook dinner over medium warmth, whisking repeatedly, unless the mix thickens and begins to simmer, about 10 minutes. Pour correct into a medium bowl and relax for about forty five minutes, stirring every so often.

8. Beat butter unless serene, about 5 minutes. Slowly add the milk and flour mixture, 1/4 cup at a time, beating in between every addition and scraping the sides of the bowl every so often. Mix in the vanilla extract.

9. Stage the cake layers earlier than assembling the cake. Scoop about 2/3 cup of frosting onto the first layer and unfold correct into a great layer. Repeat with the 2nd and third cake layers. Frost the outsides of the cake with thin layer of frosting to take any crumbs and relax for 20 minutes.

10. Enact frosting the cake with final frosting. Cut and attend.

Nutrition Facts (per serving)