recipe

Red Velvet Glasses

Total time: 80 mins.

Difficulty: Low

Serves: 6-8

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By Jennifer Philipp

These red velvet glasses offer a new and unique way to serve red velvet cake. Rather than serving the cake in slices, it gets scooped into wine glasses instead for an elegant presentation. With its beautiful red color and chocolate flavor, it makes a wonderful dessert to serve for Valentine’s Day or any other time when you need an elegant dessert.

To make the red velvet glasses, you first have to make a red velvet layer cake. You begin by making a cake batter with flour, salt, cocoa, baking soda, butter, sugar, eggs, and oil until combined. Then, the batter gets baked in cake pans in the oven. Then the cake gets decorated with a cream cheese frosting before being scooped into glasses and served.

What are Red Velvet Glasses?

Red velvet glasses are just how they sound; they are red velvet cake served in wine glasses, and great to serve after a special dinner on Valentine’s Day! Red velvet cake has to be one of the best-known desserts for Valentine’s as it is red in color and has a chocolaty taste.

Popular in the Southern United States, it likely originated in North America. It has a fine-crumb texture, red color, and chocolate flavor. Traditionally, it can be served with either a cream cheese or ermine frosting, but this version uses cream cheese frosting which is sweet and tangy.

Pro Tips

Make sure the butter is at room temperature so that it is easy to blend into the batter.
If you don’t have buttermilk on hand, you could use a mixture of milk and vinegar or lemon juice instead. Simply mix the milk with a tablespoon of vinegar or lemon juice and allow it to sit for 5 minutes before using it in this recipe.
To test the doneness of the cake, simply insert a skewer into the middle to see if it comes out clean.
Using an offset spatula will help ice the cake more easily.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the Real Flavor of Red Velvet Cake?

Red velvet cake has a light cocoa flavor along with tanginess, vanilla taste, and sweetness from cream cheese frosting.

What is the Secret to Good Red Velvet Cake?

The secret to good red velvet cake is using ingredients like butter, oil, and buttermilk to impart moisture. The buttermilk is also somewhat acidic which interacts with the baking soda to help the cake rise and become nice and fluffy.

Can I Serve Red Velvet Cake in Slices Rather than Glasses?

Absolutely! If you would prefer to simply slice the cake into wedges in the traditional way, you could do that instead of scooping it into wine glasses.

How to Store Red Velvet Glasses

If you have portioned glasses of cake that don’t get eaten, you can cover them individually with plastic wrap before storing the cake in the fridge. Alternatively, you could cover the entire cake with plastic wrap and store it in the fridge. The cake should stay good for up to 3 to 4 days.

Ingredients

flour

310 g (2 ⅔ cups)

Cocoa

16 g (2 tbsp)

Baking soda

5 g (1 tsp)

salt

a pinch

Vanilla powder

1/4 tsp

room temp butter

113 g (½ cup)

sugar

300 g (1 ½ cup)

eggs

vegetable oil

220g (1 cup)

Vinegar

5 ml (1 tsp)

Buttermilk

240 ml (1 cup)

cream cheese

500g (2 cups)

Cream

300 g (1 ⅓ cup)

Vanilla powder

1/4 tsp

vanilla extract

powdered sugar

25 g (¼ cup)

red food dye

How to Make Red Velvet Glasses

Step 1

For the cream cheese frosting, in a bowl, whip the heavy cream with the powdered sugar and vanilla. Fold in the cream cheese.

For the cake, in a bowl, whisk the flour with cocoa, baking soda, and salt until combined. Then, in another bowl, beat the butter with the sugar until creamy before adding the eggs, oil, vinegar, and buttermilk.

Step 2

Trim the cake and set the trimmings aside to crumble for garnish on the cake. Spread frosting on one cake layer and place another cake layer on top. Spread frosting all over the tops and sides of the cake before adding red velvet cake crumbs for a garnish.

Beat the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients until a smooth batter forms. Add in the red food coloring.