Hi folks. So here's the thing. When planning to make a cake you must do these things:
Make sure you have all the ingredients needed!
Make sure you have all the tools needed!
Make sure you do it well in advance of when it is needed!
Yup!
I did none of those things.
But look at this pretty cake!
This was part of the Crazy Cooking Challenge. Once a month we all make a recipe from another blog we pick ourselves. Then on a specified date we all post those recipes. It's always fun to participate in these kinds of things. This month it was chocolate cake so I think everyone was excited to make it. Life has been a bit more hectic here at the Bee household than normal so I got to this really late. When someone is sick everything that is planned tends to go to hell in a handbasket. When it's your kid it goes to hell in a handbasket and that handbasket gets tossed over a cliff. Just the way it is.
I chose to use La Mia Vita Dolce to use as inspiration. Such a gorgeous blog and beautiful food. I knew I wanted to do red velvet cake so when I saw the Red Velvet Cake there I knew it was what I was doing. I made a couple of changes, more due to time than anything else. The cake is the same but we don't like cream cheese frosting here so I opted to use the Fluffy Vanilla Frosting instead. I did make the raspberry filling but time did not allow for me to use it. So I can just use it on something else.
Ingredients
- Ingredients for Cake:
- 3 tablespoons cocoa
- 2 and ½ cups cake flour
- ¾ teaspoon salt
- 1 and ½ cups caster superfine sugar
- 1 and ½ cups walnut oil
- 2 large eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 tablespoons red food coloring I used the gel type
- 1 cup buttermilk I did not have any so I took 1 cup of milk and added 1 ¾ teaspoons of cream of tartar
- 1 and ½ teaspoons of baking soda
- 2 teaspoons white vinegar
- Ingredients for Frosting:
- 1 cup and 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 3 cups confectioners icing/powdered sugar
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- I also added about 2 tablespoons of milk to loosen it up a bit more
Instructions
- Directions for Cake:
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Butter, grease or spray your pan/pans with non stick spray.
- Sift flour, cocoa and salt into a medium bowl. Whisk until combined.
- In a mixer whisk sugar and oil until well combined.
- Add your eggs one at a time and whisk in between each addition.
- Add your vanilla and food coloring and mix again.
- Add the flour mixture and the buttermilk to the mixer alternating between them.
- In a small bowl add your vinegar and baking soda together. Let it bubble and then stir it and add it to the mixer. Whisk for 10 seconds.
- Pour the batter into whatever pans you want to use. I chose bundt.
- Place in oven and bake for 25 to 35 minutes.
- Remove and let cool.
- Directions for Frosting:
- In a mixer blend you butter till soft and smooth.
- Add sugar a little at a time and keep adding and mixing till it is fluffy.
- Add vanilla and mix again.
- If icing is too thick add some milk to it.
- Putting the Cake Together:
- Place you cake on a plate.
Make sure you stop by all the other lovely blogs who did recipes this month. Lots of yumminess out there today.
If interested in participating in the Crazy Cooking Challenge feel free to get ahold of Tina at Mom's Crazy Cooking.
Toodles and smoochies.xx
Marina
My hat is off to you, Kim! I am so intimidated to bake, don't know why, maybe because I have to follow the recipe and have all the ingredients?! I bake a few times a year, mostly around the holidays. I am giving you 10 out of 5 for this cake. Beautiful masterpiece.
Tori @ The Shiksa in the Kitchen
Red velvet, one of my favorites!! So yummy. Give me cream cheese frosting with mine. So good. <3
Quiche-ing Queen
Your cake looks so delicious. Yummy!
Dara Reppucci
all of these cakes look sooo amazing. Now I'm craving cake. Serves me right for surfing blogs when I should be working. This looks delish.
mellissa@ibreatheimhungry
Great minds think alike Kim - I'm doing a (low carb) red velvet cake this week too! If I only I could eat the classic though I'd be baking your version! It looks soooo good! Nom nom nom!!!!
Chung-Ah | Damn Delicious
Yum! This looks fabulous Kim! I love that it's a vanilla frosting rather than your usual cream cheese frosting.
Lindselicious
Oh this looks good! Im getting hungry now at work, might have to go get a cupcake... LOL
mividaenundulce
I only did one time a red velvet and it was in a cupcake. I had a very hard time with the food coloring, it's hard to have that beatiful dark red. So, never try again, and never try in a cake, but after seen your, I want to try again...
Kiri W.
Mmmmmmm. Looks amazing 🙂 Looks better than anything I would have baked even with amazing preparation.
Lacy @ NYCityEats
Oh my favorite! I am obsessed with all things red velvet and with all of the things that you weren't prepared for it looks delicious! I've never tried it with anything but a cream cheese frosting, might have to use this recipe next time!
The Cookinglady
Looks great Kim I knew you could do it. Red Velvet will be the next cake I try.
Happy When Not Hungry
This looks delicious! Love red velvet. I often start baking something and realize I don't have all of the ingredients!
AndiWinslow
Been waiting to see a red velvet cake. I made my first one awhile ago and loved it. Its made with brown sugar and not white. Then I made some whoppie pies red velvet and used white sugar, I prefer the brown sugar. Nice choice very pretty andi
The Shady Porch
Very pretty cake! I make a lot of red velvet cakes and I've never heard of doing one with raspberry filling...I'll have to check that out! (Visiting from the CCC...I'm #60)
The Harried Cook
Gorgeous cake, Kim! I adore red velvet! And this one looks so yummy with that fluffy frosting.. The raspberry filling would have been great with it right? Can't wait to see what you do with it! Thanks for sharing 🙂
Kels @ K and K Test Kitchen
Mmm this looks delicious Kim!
Cake Duchess
Hi Kim- Love this challenge and your cale turned out just divine! So moist and tempting me wishing I could have a slice:)
Gerry @Foodness Gracious
Red velvet is the cake of pleasure!! Looks awesome..
Alyssa
One of the reasons I don't bake much is because I will get all excited to make something and then not have all of the ingredients. I thought I was the only one who did that! But the cake looks great, perfect for valentines's day!
Jill @ MadAboutMacarons
Love the idea of raspberry in there and the frosting is just so much like the view we have of the snow outside Paris just now! What a roundup, too! That is a lot of cakes 🙂