There are many legends that run around the Red Velvet Cake, one of the most popular American cakes.

I think his real story begins with the great American depression of the end 800.

It seems that John Adams, in 1888 he opened a company to extract and food coloring.

With the Depression, its products began to have less market and had the brilliant idea of developing a promotion sale of innovative for its time.

In those years some cakes took a slightly red colored, due to the chemical reaction of some ingredients used: cocoa and the acidity of other products.

Adams decided to create the red cake that had ever been made and had distributed more drugstores possible, billboards with the image of the pie. The main ingredients to make the cake were only the red coloring and vanilla extract. To those who had bought them would have been given the secret recipe, thus enticing customers to spend anything extra to buy its products.

So he managed to overcome the difficult years and the Red Velvet Cake became increasingly popular.

Today the reference recipe comes from the Magnolia Bakery in New York.

Red Velvet Cake

For the base

440 g flour 00

170 g butter (at room temperature)

3 eggs (room temperature)

450 g sugar

6 teaspoons red food coloring liquid

16 g unsweetened cocoa powder

6 g vanilla extract

9 g salt

370 g white natural yogurt (or buttermilk)

7 g apple vinegar

7 g bicarbonate

For the cream:

50 g flour 00

500 g whole milk

450 g butter (at room temperature)

400g castor sugar

9 g vanilla extract

Method:

for the base mount planetary softened butter with 225 grams of sugar until it will be nice fluffy.

Add the eggs, one at a time, alternating with the remaining sugar

Add the sifted cocoa, coloring and vanilla while continuing to mount.

Dissolve the salt into the buttermilk or yoghurt

In a bowl mix apple vinegar and baking soda

Stir in butter based, alternately, the flour, buttermilk with salt and vinegar with baking soda.

Spread the mixture evenly into three cake tins from 24 cm diameter butter and flour

Bake in oven preheated to 180 ° C for about 25-30 minutes (check the area with a toothpick).

Remove from oven, let cool and remove from the molds.

For the vanilla cream dissolve the flour in cold milk inside a saucepan stirring with a whisk.

Put on low heat and simmer for 10 minutes stirring constantly.

Cool quickly.

Cream butter and sugar until it is very fluffy.

Add vanilla and continue beating.

Combine the cream and flour at room temperature.

Parry disks and put the first on a hard cake.

Make a first layer of cream. Continue with the other disks.

Completely cover the cake with cream and smooth it with precision.

Leave it covered in the refrigerator until serving.