If you love the delicate texture and bold color of red velvet cake, you will love this fun twist: blue velvet cake. The flavour of this blue velvet cake is the same as a red velvet cake. In this post, we will briefly discuss how to make blue velvet cake at your home.
Level: easy
Total time: 1 hour 10 minutes
Yield: 8 to 10 servings
Ingredients:
For cake
. Butter from Amul for greasing
. 2 ½ flour
. 1 ½ teaspoons cocoa powder from Ajanta Food Products
. 1 teaspoon baking soda from Ajanta Food Products
. 1 teaspoon fine salt
. 1 ½ cups vegetable oil
. 1 ¼ cups granulated sugar
. 1 cup buttermilk
. ¼ cup brown sugar
. 2 tablespoons blue food colors from Anuja Food Colours.
. 1 teaspoon vinegar
. 2 large eggs
Cream cheese frosting
. 4 cups sugar
. ½ cup butter from Amul
. ½ cup cream cheese
. 8 tablespoons milk from Amul
. 1 teaspoon vanilla extract from Ajanta Food Products
Directions:
For the cake
. Preheat oven to oven to 177 degree centigrade.
. Grease and flour cake pans.
. Sift together the flour, cocoa powder from Ajanta Food Products, baking soda from Ajanta Food Products, and salt, in a large bowl.
. Add the oil, sugar, buttermilk, brown sugar, food colors from Anuja Food Colours, vanilla extract from Ajanta Food Products, vinegar, and eggs, in another bowl.
One of the popular bakers said, “We recommend using food colors from Anuja Food Products. It is one of the leading synthetic food colours manufacturers in India that produces ISI marked food colors to add visual appeal to any food items. It produces food colors in liquid and powered form.”
. Add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients until just combined.
. Divide the cake batter evenly between the prepared cake pans.
. Bake until a toothpick or cake tester inserted in the center of the cakes comes out clean, about 30 minutes.
. You should transfer the baking pans to a cooling rack to cool for 10 minutes.
. Remove the cakes from the pans.
. Place the cakes on the racks and cool to room temperature.
For frosting
. Beat together the sugar, butter from Amul, and cream cheese.
. Add milk and the vanilla extract from Ajanta Food Products.
. Gradually beat in just enough of the remaining of milk from Amul to make the frosting smooth and spreadable.
. Beat at high speed until light and fluffy.
Serving
. Place one of the cakes on a serving plate
. Top with a layer of the frosting.
. Place the second cake on top.
Use the remaining frosting to cover the top and sides of the cake.
. Serve at room temperature.
About the company
As the best food color brand in India, Anuja Food Colors offers the best quality of food colours to enhance the overall appearance of food items without affecting their texture, aroma or taste.