This moist Purple Velvet Bundt Cake is velvety comfortable and decadent with a high-quality crumb, a touch of cocoa taste, and a scrumptious cream cheese frosting.
Purple Velvet Truffles are nice it doesn’t matter what the season, however we particularly love them within the winter months. Maintain this recipe in thoughts for a Christmas dessert, Valentine’s Day dessert, or simply as a result of! It comes collectively very quickly. We hope you get pleasure from it!
Find out how to Make Purple Velvet Bundt Cake
You’ll find the complete, printable Purple Velvet Bundt Cake recipe on the backside of this submit. Here’s a fast have a look at our steps!
*It’s possible you’ll discover that this recipe makes use of a model of the reverse creaming technique of blending. The order of elements are a bit completely different than the standard creaming technique, however you’re positive to be proud of the result- a moist, velvety comfortable cake with a high-quality crumb!
- First, preheat oven to 325 levels. Grease and flour a bundt pan (ours had a 12 cup baking capacity- this recipe makes about 7 cups of batter).
- Dry Substances: Add the first 5 elements into the bowl of your mixer. Combine on low pace for at the least 30 seconds to mix (cake flour, sugar, baking powder, cocoa powder, and salt).
- Add the softened butter (reduce into items) to the dry combination, mixing on low pace simply till it seems like coarse sand. The dry elements might be moistened/coated by the butter and can stick with collectively when you press some between two fingers. Do not over combine or it should flip into a big dough-like ball. It ought to look just like the picture under.
- Add the eggs one after the other, mixing till blended.Â
- In a medium sized bowl, mix the bitter cream, vegetable oil, milk, purple meals coloring, vanilla extract, and white vinegar.Â
- With the mixer on lowest pace steadily pour the bitter cream combination into the mixer. Improve the pace to #2 or # 3 (on a KitchenAid mixer). Combine for 2 minutes. Batter might be clean and effectively mixed.
- Scoop/pour the batter into the ready bundt cake pan. (If you’re utilizing a smaller bundt cake pan, understand that the batter should not exceed â…” full in order that the cake has room to rise whereas baking.)
- Bake at 325 levels F for 55 -60 minutes or till an inserted wood skewer comes out clear or with just some moist crumbs connected. Baking occasions could fluctuate and so it’s best to peek in as the tip time approaches and alter time as wanted.
- Permit the freshly baked cake to cool on a wire rack (within the pan) for about 10 minutes earlier than turning out. Permit it to chill utterly earlier than including the frosting.
Cream Cheese Frosting
We won’t have purple velvet cake with out cream cheese frosting- it’s such a scrumptious pairing!
This frosting is an easy mixture of softened butter, cream cheese, vanilla, and a pinch of salt. It’s so creamy and flavorful. We halved our standard cream cheese frosting recipe which gave us simply sufficient to brighten the highest.
Apply the cream cheese frosting to the cooled cake nonetheless you like- you’ll be able to’t go flawed! We piped a sample of chunky shells and rosettes utilizing a 1M star piping tip- however you would additionally slather it on prime with a small offset spatula.
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Extra Purple Velvet Truffles
Along with as we speak’s cake, now we have extra purple velvet cake recipes so that you can strive! Right now’s recipe is predicated partially on our Purple velvet cake from scratch pictured under. We now have an awesome Purple Velvet Pound Cake as effectively which is a little more dense than as we speak’s recipe however so scrumptious.
Thanks a lot for stopping by as we speak! We hope that you just get pleasure from this Purple Velvet Bundt Cake as a lot as now we have! Ensure to take a look at our full assortment of cake recipes and cake adorning tutorials!
For the Cream Cheese Frosting
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Preheat oven to 325 levels. Grease and flour a bundt pan (ours had a 12 cup baking capacity- this recipe makes about 7 cups of batter).
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Add the primary 5 elements into the bowl of your mixer. Combine on low pace for at the least 30 seconds to mix these dry elements (cake flour, sugar, baking powder, cocoa powder, and salt).
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Add the softened butter (reduce into items) to the dry combination, mixing on low pace simply till it seems like coarse sand. The dry elements might be moistened/coated by the butter and can stick with collectively when you press some between two fingers. Do not over-mix or it should flip into a big dough-like ball.
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Add the eggs one after the other, mixing till blended.Â
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In a medium sized bowl, mix the bitter cream, vegetable oil, milk, purple meals coloring, vanilla extract, and white vinegar.Â
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With the mixer on lowest pace steadily pour the bitter cream combination into the mixer. Improve the pace to #2 or # 3 (on a KitchenAid mixer). Combine for 2 minutes. Batter might be clean and effectively mixed.
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Scoop/pour the batter into the ready bundt cake pan. (If you’re utilizing a smaller bundt cake pan, understand that the batter should not exceed â…” full in order that the cake has room to rise whereas baking.)
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Bake at 325 levels F for 55 -60 minutes or till an inserted wood skewer comes out clear or with just some moist crumbs connected. Baking occasions could fluctuate and so it’s best to peek in as the tip time approaches and alter time as wanted.
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Permit the freshly baked cake to chill on a wire rack (within the pan) for about 10 minutes earlier than turning out. Permit it to chill utterly earlier than including the frosting.
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Makes roughly 7 cups cake batter
For the Cream Cheese Frosting
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Add the softened butter to the bowl of your mixer. Combine on low to medium pace till the butter is clean.
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Reduce the softened cream cheese into items and add to the butter, beating at low to medium pace till included.
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Add the vanilla and salt. Steadily add the powdered sugar beating on low pace till blended.
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Improve mixing pace barely and blend till effectively mixed. Do not over combine or it should turn out to be too comfortable. If it turns into too comfortable, simply refrigerate a short time to agency it up a bit.
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This frosting will pipe greatest if used whereas nonetheless chilled. You can also make it prematurely, refrigerate and when prepared to make use of let it soften barely (don’t microwave) and remix.
Adorning the cake
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As soon as the cake has cooled utterly, you’ll be able to both pipe the frosting onto the highest of the cake or unfold it on with a spatula. (We used a big star 1M piping tip to pipe alternating rows of shells and rosettes).
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Due to the cream cheese frosting, the cake needs to be refrigerated (in an hermetic container, underneath a cake dome, or in a sealed bakery field.) Nevertheless, for the perfect taste and texture, take away from the fridge a number of hours earlier than serving to permit the cake to heat and soften.
