Bake Red Velvet Cake With Me 🍫🎂

Ya’ll I’ve never made a cake from scratch before, but my sister-in-law requested that I make a Red Velvet Cake for her birthday so🧍🏾‍♀️… make this cake with me!

I let two eggs, 1 pack of unsalted butter, buttermilk, and 2 8 Oz. blocks of cream cheese sit out so I could make them room temperature.

I started off by preheating my oven to 350°F and I used baking spray and some organic cocoa powder to coat two 9 inch cake pans.

I mixed 2 ½ cups of all-purpose flour, 1 tsp of salt, and 1 tsp of baking soda in a big bowl.

In a medium sized bowl I added 1 stick of unsalted butter (room temp) and used my hand mixer to cream it. I then added in 1 ½ cups of granulated sugar and mixed that in. I then added in 2 room temp eggs (one at a time before combining), and 2 tsp of vanilla.

I added 2 tbsp of coco to the medium sized bowl and used a sifter to get the chunks out of the coco. I used my hand mixer to combine this together.

In a measuring cup I added 1 Cup of room temperature Buttermilk, 1 tbsp of distilled white vinegar, and honestly I don’t know how much red food coloring I used, but I just squeezed it in and eventually added more until it looked red enough to me.

I added half of the measuring cup and half of the flour mixture into the coco bowl and used my hand mixer to combine them. I then combined the other half, and added more red food coloring because it didn’t seem like I had enough in there 💀

I learned that cake strips help cakes cook evenly. So I submersed my cake strips in water for 5 minutes and then wrapped them around my prepped cake pans. I then added half of the mixture into each pan. I removed just a tiny bit from each pan and put it aside in a cupcake wrapper so I could have some cake to decoratively crumble on the outside of my cake. I tossed all this in the oven for 35 minutes.

While my cakes were baking I started making my cream cheese frosting.

I added two 8 Oz. Blocks of room temperature cream cheese and 3 sticks of room temperature unsalted butter to a bowl. I used my hand mixer to combine the ingredients. I then added 1 tsp of vanilla extract and a pinch of Kosher salt. I then added in 5 ½ cups of powdered sugar to the mix (about a cup at a time before mixing it in).

When my cakes were done I let them cool for 10 minutes before hitting the sides of the pan and flipping them out on the cooling rack.

I put some frosting on a cake tray and added my cake layer. I then spread some frosting around the top of the cake layer before adding my second layer. I also added the frosting on the top and the sides of the cake. I tossed the cake in the fridge to let it chill before figuring out how to prep an icing bag. Once my bags were prepped and the cake had chilled, I took my cake out the fridge and smoothed the sides before piping icing on the top rim.

With my extra cupcake I used a cheese grater to finely crumble it up and used it to go around the base of the cake and up the sides. I accidentally sprinkled some of the crumbs on the top of the cake, so to “fix” it I just intentionally sprinkled a light layer of crumbs on the top.

Overall I think it turned out good for my very first attempt at making a cake.

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