Red Velvet Cake

Hello!

I few days i go i went back to the kitchen with the goal of making a red velvet cake.
I love Laura in the Kitchen videos and fortunately for me she had the recipe i needed. I changed a few things and added the strawberries. But everything went ‘wrong’.

As you can see, the cake isn’t red, even though i brought gel food coloring. Then my cream frosting is anything but cream… (that on top is chocolate). Not even talking about this is my second cake! The first one was under cooked and i had to make cake pops with the rest of it. Still the taste is good, and the strawberries give it a natural look.

Of course i took the opportunity to take a few photos with my new lens.

The recipe, from here, is the following.

Ingredients:
2 ½ cups of All Purpose Flour
¼ cup of Cocoa Powder
1 ½ cups of Granulated Sugar
2 tsp of Baking Powder
1 tsp of Baking Soda
½ tsp of Salt
½ cup of Unsalted Butter, softened at room temperature
¼ cup of Vegetable Oil
3 Eggs
2 tsp of White Distilled Vinegar
1 Cup of Buttermilk
Red Food Coloring
2 tsp of Vanilla Extract

Cream Cheese Frosting:
4 Cups of Powdered Sugar
8 oz of Cream Cheese, softened at room temperature
4 Tbsp of Unsalted Butter, softened at room temperature
2 Tbsp of Milk
1 tsp of Vanilla Extract

Process,

1) Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Grease 2 9” cake pans and line them with parchment paper and set aside.
2) In a large bowl, sift together the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, baking soda and salt, set aside.
3) In the bowl of a standing fitted with a paddle attachment, cream together the butter, sugar and vegetable oil.
4) Add the Eggs and vanilla and cream them together until combined.
5) In a measuring jug, mix together the buttermilk, vinegar and enough food coloring to get a deep red color.
6) Add the buttermilk mixture along with the dry ingredients and allow everything to mix together until you get a smooth batter.
7) Divide the batter evenly among the two baking pans, pop them in the oven and bake them for about 25 minutes or until cooked through.
8) Allow the cakes to cool for about 15 minutes in the pans, take them out of the baking pans and allow them to cool completely on wire racks.
9) To make the frosting, in a large bowl, cream together (using a standing mixer with a paddle attachment works best) the butter, cream cheese, sugar, vanilla and salt.
10) Add enough milk (1Tbsp at a time) until the frosting is nice and creamy.
11) Place one of the cakes on a cake stand, carefully slice off a very thin slice off the top (so its not rounded) add a couple of dollops of the frosting and spread it evenly.
12) Place the other cake on top, rounded side down, and frost all over the top and sides of the cake.
13) Finish off with chopped pecans all over the sides of the cake.

I hope you enjoyed this post.

Stay awesome,

Viviana