Oil Based Red velvet Cake Recipe for Valentines Day| The best red velvet Cake for the season

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312 grams flour (sifted)
400 grams granulated sugar
1 tsp red food colour (powder)
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 eggs (room temperature)
1 cup vegetable oil
224 grams buttermilk (1 cup full cream milk + 1 tbsp vinegar) (room temperature)
1 teaspoon black coffee
1 teaspoon cocoa powder (natural cocoa)
1 cup hot boiling water
1 tsp salt
1 tsp white vinegar
1 tsp Vanilla flavour
1 tsp butterscotch flavour

Make sure all ingredients are in room temperature.
Don’t use cheap ingredients. Use great quality ingredients.

If you’re in Nigeria, here are some brands I recommend

Margarine - Valido, topper, taroona, Ardennes, Rhoda

Baking soda- bakers choice

Baking powder- foster Clark, bakers choice

Red food color- excellent blend powder

Oil- kings, power oil
Milk - Hollandia UHT Full cream milk, Dano UHT Full cream milk, peak UHT full cream milk

Coffee- Nescafé

Cocoa powder- bakers choice, Susan (natural cocoa)

Flavour- mekang, remix, Payless

[loladegrace]

Thanks so much Chef....Kindly help me with one cup recipe measurment for this...i would have divided this my self...i dont want make mistake again...
Thanks beautiful chef

[Ovic_cakes]

I just tried this recipe, OMG it came out really I didn't use mixer

Thank you so much for this ma'am 🙏🙏🙏

[yvonnechiwala]

Your recipes are the best, I have tried both recipes for red velvet, oil based n butter based they are excellent.

[yvonnechiwala]

Share your vanilla cake recipe too. Both oil based n butter based.

[stellapeter]

I will be trying this recipe tomorrow, wish me luck 😫

[minetemmie]

Thanks can I use it as wedding cake
I want to do sponge cake as well
I want to know if it will hold together?

[Buttercup]

Do you have a recipe for the frosting please?

[sectilda]

I tried but my cake didn’t rise infact mine was burning on the outside 😢😢and moist inside and wasn’t fluffy… a total fail 😢 pls make a video for those who don’t hv a mixer like me

[Buttercup]

In the description it says 2 eggs, but in the video it shows 1 whole egg + 1 egg white? Which is correct please?

[zandienyathi]

I tried the receipe, cake is too soft it crumbles when you cut through