Nadiya Hussain served up a delicious red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting, vanilla, fresh strawberries and melted chocolate on Nadiya’s Fast Flavours.
The ingredients are: 250g unsalted butter, softened, plus extra for greasing the tins, 300g caster sugar, 3 medium eggs, 50g cocoa powder, 1 teaspoon red gel food colouring, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, 1 teaspoon almond extract, 300g plain flour, sifted, 1 teaspoon salt, 240ml buttermilk, 1 tablespoon white vinegar and 1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda.
For the cream cheese icing: 100g unsalted butter, softened, 600g icing sugar, sifted, 250g full-fat cream cheese and 1 teaspoon vanilla bean extract.
See recipes by Nadiya in her book titled: Nadiya’s Fast Flavours available from Amazon now.
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My red velvet cake was nor red. I used 1 teaspoon of red gel colouring and wondered why the better was not red. As I had not used food colouring before I thought maybe the red colour appeared deepened during cooking. It doesn’t! So my red velvet cake is just Velvet Cake