Cake "Red Velvet"

The cake according to this recipe is not only beautiful, but also very tasty. The sponge cake is juicy, light and fragrant, and the Red Velvet cake itself looks great.

Ingredients

• For the biscuit:
• Flour - 340 g
• Sugar - 300 g
• Cocoa - 1 tbsp. a spoon
• Salt - 1/4 teaspoon
• Baking powder - 2 teaspoons
• Soda - 1 teaspoon
• Eggs - 3 pcs.
• Kefir 3.2% - 200 ml
• Cream 33% - 80 g
• Sunflower oil - 300 g
• Red food coloring (gel) - 2 teaspoons
• For cream:
• Butter 82.5% - 100 g
• Powdered sugar - 100 g
• Cream cheese (Philadelphia) - 350 g

Directions

1. Sift all dry ingredients twice. (Be sure to pay attention to the expiration date of soda and baking powder, otherwise the cakes will not rise.)
2. To the dry ingredients, add all the other products for the cakes. (To make the dough bright red, use gel dye, not dry dye.)
3. Beat the dough at medium speed until smooth for 4-5 minutes. Let the test stand for 5 minutes.
4. We cover the bottom of a detachable baking dish (20 cm in diameter) with parchment, grease the sides of the form with oil. We will bake two biscuits, so we divide the dough into two equal parts, weighing 650 g. We alternately send the dough to the oven preheated to 170 degrees for 20 minutes. We check the readiness of the cakes with a toothpick - it should be dry. (I don’t recommend baking in a slow cooker, because the biscuit turns out with very large pores. It doesn’t look very nice in the context.)
5. Let the finished biscuits cool completely.
6. Biscuits rise during baking, but we need even cakes, so we cut off the top of both cakes.
7. Grind the tops of the biscuits into crumbs (the crumb can be kneaded with your hands, and the hard crust in a blender).
8. Let's start making the cream. Beat softened butter with a mixer for 2-3 minutes at high speed. Then add powdered sugar and continue beating for another 1.5-2 minutes.
9. Mix whipped butter with chilled cream cheese.
10. We put the cream in a bag, cut off a corner. We put the cream on the bottom cake in a circle, stepping back from the edge of 0.5 cm. Level the cream and cover with the second cake. We put a board on top and lightly press it so that the cake is even.
11. Grease the top and sides of the cake with a thin layer of cream.
12. Sprinkle the cake with crumbs. We send the Red Velvet cake to the refrigerator for a couple of hours or overnight.
13. Cake "Red Velvet" is ready.
14. Enjoy your meal!