Ridiculously Rich Red Velvet Cake #Recipe

Briony Wilson
3rd July 2020

This is the perfect occasion cake, even if that occasion is just Saturday and you want some delicious cake! Red velvet cake has such a luxurious feel to it. Here is exactly how to make it.

Cake

1. Preheat your oven to 180c and grease your cake pans
2. Sift all the dry ingredients together and whisk to combine
3. Place the butter and sugar in a bowl and beat with an electric mixer until smooth
4. Add your eggs one at a time (don’t worry if it looks curdled to start with, keep beating until smooth!)
5. Add your oil, vanilla and buttermilk and mix until combined
6. Now add your red food colouring, this part is personal preference, choose whatever level of red you like!
7. Now add in all your dry ingredients and mix until smooth and combined
8. Divide your batter between your cake pans and bake for 20-25 minutes or until a knife comes out clean
9. Rest for 10 minutes and then take out of the pans to cool

Frosting

1. While your cake cools, lets make the frosting! Add your cream cheese and beat until smooth
2. Then, add your butter and vanilla and beat until combined
3. Finally add in your icing sugar and mix until all smooth with no lumps, you might need to scrape down the bowl a few times

Decorating

1. Once your cakes are cool, gently slice across the top of one of the layers to make it nice and flat, save the part you have cut off! This will be used to decorate later.
2. Next, add a layer of cream cheese on top of the cake you have made level and add the other layer on top
3. Then, using a pallet knife, cover the rest of the cake, top and sides, in the frosting
4. Take the cuts of cake and break apart to make a crumb texture, use this to decorate along the base and top edge of the cake
5. You are done! Stand back and marvel at your creation before cutting yourself a nice big slice!

If any of you make this recipe please don’t forget to share with #bakingwithalana, I love seeing your pictures!

Recipe Info

Serves

12

Ingredients

Cake

225ml vegetable oil
375g plain flour
1.5 tbsp cocoa powder
3tsp baking powder
1.5tsp bicarb of soda
420g light brown sugar
pinch of salt
400ml buttermilk (can also use plain yoghurt)
2tsp vanilla extract
Red food colouring or paste
3 free range eggs

Frosting

250g salted butter (at room temperature)
1tsp vanilla extract
750g icing sugar
350g full fat cream cheese

Decorating

Equipment

2 deep 20cm round cake tins
palate Knife
whisk
mixing bowl