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Red Velvet Milk Cake / Red Velvet Tres Leches Cake

Published on August 01, 2024
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Ingredients:

For the cake:

3/4 cup plain flour

1 tbsp cocoa powder

1/2 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp salt

1/2 cup lukewarm milk

1 tsp vinegar

1/2 cup sugar, powdered

1/4 cup oil

1/2 tsp vanilla essence

2 tbsp yogurt

1 tsp lemon juice

red food colour

For Milk Mixture:

1 cup condensed milk

1 cup chilled milk

1 cup evaporated milk

For Frosting / Topping:

1 cup whipping cream

1/4 cup icing sugar

1/2 cup cream cheese

Preparation:

  1. Preheat the oven to 180 degree celcius. Grease a glassware / heatproof dish with cooking spray or butter and keep it aside.
  2. In a bowl, add lukewarm milk and vinegar and mix well and keep it aside.
  3. Add sugar and oil in a large mixing bowl and whisk well.
  4. Add buttermilk (step 2 ) and vanilla essence and mix well.
  5. Then add yogurt and lemon juice and mix well. Add required red food colour to this and mix well.
  6. In another bowl, sift together plain flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and salt.
  7. Add this flour mixture to the wet ingredient and mix well.
  8. Transfer the batter into the prepared glassware / dish and smooth into an even layer and then tap to release the air bubbles.
  9. Bake in the preheated oven for 20-25 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean.
  10. Remove the cake from oven and let it cool completely.
  11. In a bowl / jug, make the milk mixture by adding milk, evaporated milk and condensed milk and combining well using a whisk.
  12. When the cake is completely cooled, poke holes on the cake with a fork / skewer.
  13. Pour the milk mixture all over the entire cake (reserve some to pour while serving) and then refrigerate for at least 4 hours to allow the cake to soak up all the milk.
  14. In a bowl, beat the cream and icing sugar till you get soft peaks. 
  15. Then add cream cheese and whip until firm peaks form.
  16. Spread / pipe out the frosting on top of the cake.
  17. Decorate it with cake crumbs/ red sprinkles or as desired. Chill it for 1-2 hours..
  18. While serving, cut into slices and pour the remaining milk mixture around the cake slice and serve…