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
Lizzy
FABULOUS cake!!! And what a wonderful icing technique...you are so creative 🙂 And who forgot to invite me to this chocolate cake party????? LOL...
thepurplespoon
the cake looks delicious! I love your list at the beginning-I frequently never check to make sure I have all my ingredients only to realize midway that I NEED cream of tartar RIGHT this very second lol nice job 🙂
Curry and Comfort
That cake looks sinfully good!! Yummy in my Tummy for sure! 🙂 I like your change with the frosting.. I would eat both versions. 🙂 I have an award for you at my blog today.. hope you enjoy. ~ Ramona
Tya @ Note Etc.
well Kim, I only could say that you got talent of cooking and baking from the nature. if I were you that Red Velvet cake will not turn out fabulous like yours
cheers
kitchen koala
Your cake looks great! I've never had red velvet with raspberry filling before, but I bet I would like it. So how did you end up using your rasberry filling?
Kim Bee
Thanks Marina. My son always says I am a better cook than a baker. I think because with cooking you can just wing it more. Baking is so precise you have to be fully prepared. Which typically I am not. Lol.
Kim Bee
Thanks Tori. The last time I made red velvet I forgot we aren't all fans of cream cheese and I was giving up cupcakes to random people for days. Lol!
Kim Bee
Thank you so much.
Kim Bee
Lol Dara, get back to work girl!
Kim Bee
I must check that out. I am now curious how one makes a low carb version. I think the red velvet is just so classic. I love making it.
Kim Bee
Thank you so much. I prefer a plain frosting on mine for sure. I like it light and fluffy.
Kim Bee
Thanks. You should, cupcakes make the work day shorter. It's a total fact. Or it feels like it anyway.
Kim Bee
I have done them before too and it can be super hard to get a good color. Here is the trick, use gel coloring instead of that runny kind. It just holds up better. Some people say to mix it in with the cocoa and it stays truer. I've also heard to mix a touch of black in it but I was too afraid it would be too dark. I may play around more. But the gel colors are outstanding. SO much better.
Kim Bee
Aw thanks. I really should know better than to throw it together at the last second. Not bad for a quick cake though.
Kim Bee
Thank you so much. We all find cream cheese to thick and heavy. I like it now and again but for the most part I like a classic buttercream.
Kim Bee
Thanks. It really is so classic. Just makes me smile to see the red. I am determined to master the perfect red.
Kim Bee
Thanks. I think it's that we get too excited or something. I need to start remembering to do mise en place so I am sure I have everything. You'd think I'd learn. Lol!
Kim Bee
I'll have to try it with brown sugar. I love most things better with brown sugar. I also like most things better with vanilla brown sugar. Just takes it over the top.
Kim Bee
Thanks. Hers was super pretty but lots of sieving involved which I did not have time for. Was in a rush.
Kim Bee
Thanks. I just like a nice light frosting. I find cream cheese a bit too thick for me.