Red Velvet Cake

Red Velvet Cake is an American Classic….

Made of luscious red layers filled with a decadent white chocolate cream cheese frosting, that gives it such a lovely contrast…

 

 

 

 

Its a great tasting cake that should give all round satisfaction, adults and kids, I have added a touch of food colour gel to make it pink for the birthday girl, but normally it would be left white – dress it up or dress it down as you please…

 

 

 

Red Velvet Cake

• 200g butter
• 2 1/2 cups caster sugar
• 4 eggs
• 3 T. red food colouring
• 3 T. cocoa
• 3 cups flour
• 1 tsp. vanilla essence
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 1/4 tsp. salt
• 1 tsp. baking soda
• 1 T. white vinegar

METHOD:

1. Cream butter and sugar.
2. Add eggs, 1 at time.
3. Add all remainder ingredients, and combine baking soda & white vinegar in a cup before adding to the mixture.
4. Place into 2 x 20cm cake tins and bake 170c for 45mins or until cake is ready.
5. (for this cake in the photo I used 2 x 15cm tins and needed to bake it for approx. 70mins in my oven)

White Chocolate and Cream Cheese Frosting

• 400g white chocolate
• 250g unsalted butter
• 250g cream cheese
• 1 cup icing sugar

Melt the white chocolate over a bain marie till smooth in consistency, then add remaining ingredients and mix with an electric mixer till combined.