What do you need to make this loaf cake?
As always it helps to have all the ingredients ready at room temperature.
- self- rising flour – you can also use all purpose flour combined with baking powder. Read this article to find out how to substitute.
- unsalted butter
- granulated sugar
- vanilla extract
- cocoa powder – use unsweetened cocoa powder
- red food coloring
- milk – you just need a little bit of whole milk
- eggs
Red velvet has a very slight cocoa flavor which is enhanced by adding the cocoa powder. It is basically a vanilla cake batter but 1/3 of the batter is transformed into a red color. Except the ingredients you will need a loaf pan, a food processor or electric mixer and two mixing bowls.
How to make the marble cake
Making the cake batter is the same as with any other cake, but you separate the batter into 2/3 of the vanilla batter and 1/3 which will be transformed into the red velvet batter. Or you can change that and make more red velvet batter and less vanilla flavor (in that case, multiply milk, cocoa and food coloring by two).
Place each batter in separate bowls. For making the red velvet cake batter you first mix the milk with the cocoa powder and mix this into a paste. This way you won’t get any lumps and it will smoothly mix with the batter.
Once the chocolate batter is complete you add the red food coloring until you have the desired result. Each red colour brand is slightly different so how much you need depends on your personal preference and how strong the color is.
That can be quite a huge difference and it also matters if you use liquid food coloring (I prefer gel coloring) or powder. In upcoming articles I will explore the difference between the various natural and regular food coloring.