Recipe: Perfect Dark Royal Blue Velvet Cake

Dark Royal Blue Velvet Cake. To get the royal blue velvet color, remember the toothpickful of violet paste food color; if forgotten, the cake will bake up turquoise in color. Use paste food color to achieve the royal blue velvet color. If you use liquid or gel food color, your cake color will vary.

It is typically served with a cream cheese-based icing, but you can also make it with a basic, marshmallow icing instead. Once you know the basics of making a blue velvet cake, you can experiment with your own variations. A blue velvet cake has a similar taste to a red velvet cake. You can cook Dark Royal Blue Velvet Cake using 13 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Dark Royal Blue Velvet Cake

1. Prepare of AP flour or Cake Flour.
2. Prepare of baking soda.
3. It's of baking powder.
4. You need of salt.
5. Prepare of Unsweetened Cocoa Powder(I Used Hershey).
6. Prepare of granulated sugar.
7. It's of vegetable oil.
8. You need of eggs.
9. You need of buttermilk.
10. Prepare of vanilla extract.
11. You need of red or blue food coloring(I used Royal Blue food gel).
12. Prepare of white distilled vinegar.
13. It's of hot plain coffee**Optional**.

The main difference is in the color, obviously with a dark or light blue cake taking I basically used the recipe for my vegan vanilla cake and transformed it into navy blue cake recipes. To create that velvety cocoa flavor without changing. This cake tastes even better chilled the next day. Next time I'm going to try to make the frosting without coconut so it's just a basic cream cheese one.

Dark Royal Blue Velvet Cake step by step

1. Preheat oven to 325.
2. In a medium bowl, combine the flour, baking soda, baking powder, cocoa powder and salt. Set aside..
3. In a large bowl, combine the sugar and vegetable oil..
4. Mix in eggs, buttermilk, vanilla, and red or blue food coloring until combined..
5. Stir in the coffee and vinegar.
6. Combine the wet ingredients w/the dry ingredients a little at a time, just until combined..
7. Grease and flour 2 round 9-inch pans w/butter, shortening or flour.
8. Pour batter evenly & bake for 30-40 minutes on the middle rack until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean..
9. Allow pans to cool on a cooling rack for 30-45 minutes, once slightly cool, slide a knife around the inside to loosen the cake out of the pan..
10. Remove cakes from pans and allow them to cool completely!.
11. Frost and decorate cakes to your liking!!.

The melted marshmallows in the frosting aren't too bad either! You can use less blue food coloring and sub the rest with water if you want. White velvet cake gets it's flavor and velvety texture from buttermilk. Red velvet cake has been around for ages and probably one of the most popular cake flavors of all time. But not everyone want's to eat red food coloring or maybe they have special dietary requirements that don't allow them to eat.