Best Red Velvet Cake Icing Recipes

VERY RED VELVET CAKE WITH CREAM CHEESE ICING AND PECANS

Steps:

• To make the cake: Set the oven to 350°F and adjust the rack positions to the middle and top third. Spray three 8-inch round cake pans well with baking spray.
• Sift the flour with the baking soda.
• In a large bowl, with an electric mixer on medium speed, beat the eggs well, then beat in the sugar, oil, and vinegar. On low speed, slowly add the flour and beat in well. Add the buttermilk slowly, then the vanilla, and then the food coloring.
• Pour the batter evenly into the pans and rap them on the countertop several times to eliminate any air bubbles. Bake for 12 minutes, then rotate the pans from shelf to shelf so they bake evenly and bake until the tops spring back when lightly touched, about 25 minutes altogether. Let the cakes cool in the pans on racks for 15 minutes.
• Run a knife around the sides of the pans and invert the cakes onto the racks to cool completely. Once they're cool, refrigerate the cakes for 20 to 30 minutes to make icing them easier.
• To make the icing: Combine everything in a medium bowl and mix well until very smooth. It's best to use the icing right away, when it's soft and spreadable.
• Put one cake layer upside down on a cake plate or cake stand and cover the top evenly with frosting. Add a second layer, right side up, and spread with more frosting. Top with the third layer, right side up, and spread the frosting evenly around the sides of the cake and on top; check for any places where you can see through to the cake. Finally, sprinkle the pecans evenly all over the top of the cake.
• Once the frosting sets, cut into slices to serve. This cake keeps for up to 2 weeks in a cake keeper, but once it's ready, people want to dive right in.

RED VELVET CAKE AND CREAM CHEESE ICING (PAULA DEEN)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• In a mixing bowl cream sugar and butter, beat until light and fluffy.
• Add eggs on at a time.
• Mix cocoa and food coloring together in a small bowl; add to mixture and mix well.
• Sift together cake flour and salt.
• Add flour to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour.
• Blend in vanilla.
• In a small bowl combine baking soda and vineager. Add to mixture.
• Pour batter into 2 9inch or 3 8 inch cake pans.
• Bake 20-25 minutes or until done.
• Cool completely before frosting.
• For Icing:.
• Blend cream cheese and butter together in a mixing bowl.
• Add marshmallow creme and sugar; blend well.
• Fold in coconut and nuts if desired (or what I always do is press them into just the sides of the cake after I get the icing on it; very pretty this way!).
• Spread between layers and on top and sides of cooled cake.

HESTER'S RED VELVET CAKE ICING

Steps:

• Cook the milk and flour in the top of a double boiler over just-barely simmering water, stirring frequently and scraping down the sides with a rubber spatula until thickened, about 5 minutes. Place the mixture in the refrigerator until chilled.
• Combine the vegetable shortening, sugar, and vanilla extract with an electric mixer until well blended. Beat the chilled milk mixture into the shortening mixture until fluffy.

NANA'S RED VELVET CAKE ICING

Steps:

• Mix the flour and milk in a small saucepan.
• Over medium heat bring to a slow boil while stirring constantly (use a wisk).
• Boil until thick, remove from heat, place pan in refrigerator.
• While boiled mixture is cooling, using mixer cream together butter, powdered sugar and vanilla extract.
• When boiled mixture is completely cool add to butter mixture and beat until very fluffy and thick.

RED VELVET CAKE ICING

Steps:

• Softly whip cream by hand, in electric mixer or in food processor. Cover in bowl and refrigerate.
• Blend cream cheese and mascarpone in food processor or electric mixer until smooth. Add vanilla, pulse briefly, and add confectioners' sugar. Blend well.
• Transfer cream cheese mixture to bowl; fold in whipped cream. Refrigerate until needed.

WALDORF ASTORIA ORIGINAL RED VELVET CAKE WITH COOKED ICING RECIPE - (3.7/5)

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Spray three 9-inch round cake pans with flour-added cooking spray. For a higher ratio of cake to frosting, use two 9×2 inch pans. You may also use three 8-inch pans. If you use three 8-inch or go with two 9-inch, you will probably need to tack on about 4 minutes to the cook time due to the batter being deeper. Using high speed of electric mixer, beat shortening and sugar until creamy. Beat in eggs, vanilla extract and butter extract, scraping sides of bowl occasionally. Make a paste of red food coloring and cocoa powder, then stir that in. Or, do what I did and stir the red food coloring and cocoa in, then beat. When the batter turns red, stir in the salt and beat so that it's very well mixed. Starting and ending with flour, add the flour and buttermilk alternately to batter, stirring so that flour gets absorbed. Place the baking soda in a little cup. Add the vinegar to the baking soda, then stir the fizzy vinegar mixture into the cake batter to lighten it. Now, dump the cake batter into the pans, dividing evenly. Bake for 20 minutes or until a wooden skewer inserted in the center comes out with moist crumbs. Let cakes cool in pans on a rack for 10 minutes. Flip out of pans and cool completely. Note: If your oven runs hot, cook the red velvet cake at 325 degrees F. The cakes will turn out dry if overcooked. Make the frosting. In a heavy saucepan, whisk together 3 tablespoons of flour and 1/4 cup of the milk until smooth. Whisk in salt and remaining milk. Turn heat to medium and cook, whisking constantly, until mixture is thick and creamy. Let it cool completely. Using your electric mixer, beat butter and granulated sugar until fluffy. Beat in the vanilla. Beat in the thoroughly cooled flour mixture. Beat and beat until the icing is fluffy and no longer grainy (this may take a while, depending on how good your mixer is). For this recipe, I recommend using a stand mixer. Cover cake with frosting.

ERMINE ICING FOR RED VELVET CAKE

Steps:

• Over medium heat, whisk flour and milk in a small saucepan and heat to a simmer, stirring frequently until it becomes very thick and almost pudding like.
• Remove from heat, whisk in vanilla and salt. Pour into a bowl to allow it to cool completely. Put plastic wrap on the surface to keep a skin from forming.
• Use a mixer to cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy, scraping the sides of the bowl occasionally, about 5 minutes.
• With the mixer on medium, add the cooled flour mixture a little bit at a time. Continue to beat until the mixture becomes light and fluffy and resembles whipped cream.

RED VELVET CAKE WITH CORNSTARCH ICING

Steps:

• CAKE
• Cream Crisco, sugar and eggs. Make a paste of cocoa and food coloring and add to creamed mixture. Add buttermilk, flour, salt and vanilla. Mix baking soda and vinegar in a separate cup and blend into mixture (Don’t Over Beat).
• Put into 2 each flour/greased 8" cake pans or 1 each 9"x13" pan. Bake 24 to 30 minutes at 350°F.
• ICING
• Cook cornstarch, salt and milk until thick (stir constantly). Let thickened mixture cool or place in fridge for 30 minutes. Cream Crisco, sugar and vanilla until fluffy (about 5 minutes). Add cornstarch and beat until fluffy.

RED VELVET CAKE AND WHITE ICING

Steps:

• Cream together 1/2 cup Shortening and 1 1/2 cups Sugar. Add 2-eggs. 1-teaspoon vanilla, 1-teaspoon salt, and 1 teaspoon butter flavoring and mix thoroughly. Make a paste of cocoa and cake coloring. Add: To first mixture Add: alternately 2 1/2 cups shifted flour 1 cup buttermilk Mix in snall bowel: 1 teaspoon soda 1 Tablespoon vinegar Add to first mixture and blend well. Bake: 25 to 30 minutes at 350 degrees.
• Cook in saucepan until thick: 3 Tablespoons flour, 1-Cup sweet milk ½-Teaspoon salt Stirring constantly Set aside and Let Cool Cream in small bowel: 1 Cup Crisco, 1 Cup Sugar. Add: first mixture to creamed mixture. Add: 2 Teaspoon Vanilla, ¼ Teaspoon Butter flavoring. Beat for 5 minutes or more, until fluffy. Spread on cooled cake.

RED VELVET CAKE WITH CREAM CHEESE ICING

Steps:

• Cream Cheese Icing - see below Garnish: chopped pecans, slighty toasted Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour 3 8-inch cake pans. Beat shortening at medium speed with an electric mixer until fluffy; gradually add sugar, beating well. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating until blended after each addition. Stir in food coloring and vanilla, blending well. Combine flour, salt, and cocoa; set aside. Combine buttermilk, vinegar, and soda in a 4-cup liquid measuring cup. (Mixture will bubble.) Add flour mixture to shortening mixture, alternately with buttermilk mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Beat at low speed until blended after each addition. Beat at medium speed 2 minutes; pour batter into prepared pans. Bake at 350° for 25 minutes. Cool in pans on wire racks 10 minutes; remove from pans, and cool completely on wire racks. Cream Cheese Icing 1 (8) ounce package cream cheese, softened 1/2 stick butter, softened 1/2 box plus 2 tablespoons confectioner's sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Using a mixer, blend all of the ingredients together until smooth and creamy. Spread Cream Cheese Frosting between layers and on top of cake. Garnish with chopped pecans.