Red Velvet Cake

Saturday we hosted a beautiful pink baby shower for my friend at a Bistro in Stellenbosch. Their little girl is due in November, we can’t wait to meet her. Thank you to everyone at Ella’s for making the day special!

Of course I had to spoil mommy with her favourites, Red velvet cake. I made Red Velvet cupcakes with a butter cream cheese topping.

Red Velvet Cake

Ingredients:

115g of Butter or Margarine

1 cup of Castor Sugar

2 Eggs

30ml of red food colouring (or a few knife tips of the concentrated red colouring powder)

2 Tablespoons of Cocoa

350ml of Buttermilk

1 Teaspoon Vanilla essence

2 ½ Cups of Cake flour

½ Teaspoon of Salt

7ml of Baking Soda

12ml Brown vinegar

• Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy, add the eggs one by one while mixing.
• Next mix in the rest of the liquids (buttermilk, food colouring, vanilla essence and vinegar) together with the Cocoa.
• Sift together the flour, salt, Baking Soda and add the dry ingredients in the mixing bowl.
• Gently fold together the mixture and place in cupcake holders.

Bake at 180 degrees Celsius for about 22 min - 25 min. (If you bake a cake instead of the cupcakes it should take about 30 min)

Icing:

500g Butter

250g Icing sugar

250ml Cream Cheese

100ml Lemon Juice (add more if needed)

Cream together the butter, cream cheese and Lemon juice. Add the icing sugar until it reaches a nice piping consistency. This icing will harden slightly. (If you want shine add 1 tablespoon of syrup)

This recipe is not too sweet, but the icing is very rich you can definitely not eat more than 1. Let me know what you think!