Red Velvet Cake

[walkersareback]

I used to have an amazing red velvet cake recipe - no cocoa as dd hates chocolate cake and it adapted beautifully to gluten free (dd has coeliac disease).

I bookmarked the recipe and have used it for years. Went to it today to buy ingredients for dd's birthday cake and the recipe has disappeared.

Does anyone have a tried and tested recipe for red velvet cake. The recipe had white vinegar, buttermilk, vegetable oil and no cocoa.

Here is the original link

allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/21332/easy-red-velvet-cake.aspx

Can anyone help? Thank you

Search on the allrecipes site. There are loads of recipes.

Thank you. I have looked but they generally include cocoa or butter instead of oil.

I've managed to find it using the way back machine tool. I'm so happy - have printed it AND saved as a pdf

Glad you found the recipe, but I'm curious as to how it's not just a sponge cake with red food colouring? Is it because the vinegar and buttermilk give it a tangy taste?

The oil also gives it a softer texture - a bit like carrot cake.

The taste/texture is quite different to a Victoria sponge. It doesn't taste particularly tangy but I think the buttermilk also changes the texture.

It's nice to have a cake that my daughter likes that doesn't taste like it's gluten-free. And that I can make as I am not the world's most gifted baker.