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
Kim Bee
Thank you so much.
Kim Bee
Thank you. I was quite happy with this cake. You kind of never know when you try a new one. This was quality cake.
Kim Bee
Thanks so much.
Kim Bee
Lol, nope I do it too. I need to start planning a day ahead.
Kim Bee
Thanks Jill. Oh how pretty. Man I need to come visit you.
Kim Bee
Thanks Liz. I honestly had to get creative as it was looking a bit dull. I want to buy one of those fancy edging things but it'll have to wait. I know right, you should be at all cake parties.
Kim Bee
Thanks so much. I am so guilty of not having ingredients. I did not have buttermilk, I rarely do. Luckily most things have substitutions or I'd be a goner.
Kim Bee
Thanks Ramona. I tend to like light frostings. I'll eat a cream cheese one if push comes to shove but it's not my first choice. Oh how sweet, I shall be stopping by this afternoon to take a peek.
Kim Bee
Aw you are so sweet. Thank you so much.
Kim Bee
Thank you so much. I still have to use the raspberry up. Dreaming up ideas.
Emily
I am drooling over all of the chocolate cake recipes. I do love me some red velvet cake though. Great idea with the bundt pan - all the more frosting. 🙂
Teri@thefreshmancook
Oh boy, you had me at "Red Velvet"! Beautiful Cake!
Winelady Cooks
Hi Kim, I've never made a red velvet cake, but your post has definitely made me want to give this the old college try. The cake looks delish so I'm going for it, no matter what.
Thanks for sharing,
Joanne
Carolyn
That's a gorgeous Red Velvet Cake, Kim. And Grace's blog really is astonishingly amazing, isn't it??? Love her, she's a sweetie too.
Stephanie @ Eat. Drink. Love.
Red velvet is my favorite cake. Ever. I hope you saved me a big piece!!
tandysinclair.com
your intro sounds just like me! I have never used walnut oil before - love your cake 🙂
lavender & lime
I cannot comment using my wordpress ID! Your intro sounds just like me. I have never used walnut oil before - great cake 🙂
Kim Bee
Thanks. I know right. More is always better.
Kim Bee
Thanks. Lol!
Kim Bee
Hi Joanne. It is intimidating but once you try you'll wonder why you waited so long. Let me know how it turns out. Gel coloring is far superior.