I love dessert, that is not a secret. Red velvet cake is probably my favorite cake. It's simple and delicious. I made this for Christmas and it was a huge hit.
Ingredients:
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon of baking soda
- 1 teaspoon of baking powder
- 1 teaspoon of salt
- 2 1/2 cups sugar
- 1 cup vegetable oil or canola
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup milk
- 3 teaspoon of vanilla extract
- 1-2 oz. red food coloring, depends how deep you want the color
- 1 tub cream cheese
- 1 bar of milk chocolate
- 1 bar of white chocolate
(Or if that sounds like a whole lot of work but you still
want cake, buy this mix)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 325.
- In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine 2 cups of sugar and vegetable oil.
- Mix in the eggs, milk, vanilla and red food coloring until combined.
- Combine the wet ingredients with the dry ingredients a little at time, mixing after each addition, just until combined.
- Grease and flour a round, 9 inch cake pans with shortening and flour.
- Pour the batter evenly into each pan.
- Bake for 30-40 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
- Let pan cool on a cooling rack until the pans are warm to the touch.
- Using a knife around the inside of the pans to loosen the cake from the pan.
- Remove the cake from the pan and let them cool.
- Mix cream cheese 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract and ½ cup of sugar.
- When cool cut the cake in half.
- Frost the cake with cream cheese frosting when the cakes have cooled completely.
- Melt the chocolate (with milk) and then evenly spread over the cake. (I covered the entire with white chocolate first than used spoon and decorated with milk chocolate)
- Let sit in the fridge for 30 minutes before serving
What is your favorite cake? Did you try this recipe? What did you think about it?
