Red Velvet Cake

I swear, my laptop may be my best friend of all times. It's a bit sad to say but it's true!! I spent my whole day today cleaning up the house or watching reruns of Revenge. I recently got super into that show since all my other shows are over for the season. Which leaves me nothing to watch. I am a serious tv show connoisseur. Okay, maybe I'm not REALLY, but I definitely do watch a ton of tv shows. I need to fill up my day somehow since I spend about 70% of the week baking and the other 30% sleeping. Here is a list of the tv shows I absolutely love watching.

• How I Met Your Mother
• Dexter
• The Office
• Doctor Who
• Grey's Anatomy
• Private Practice
• Walking Dead
• Big Bang Theory
• The Bachelor/Bachelorette
• Suits
• Pretty Little Liars
• Mistresses
• Community
• Once Upon a Time
• Modern Family
• Beauty and the Beast
• New Girl
• Bones
• Scrubs
• Breaking Bad

I swear there's a ton more but most of the shows that I've watched are probably completely finished (such as Scrubs and The Office). Okay.. maybe I don't love ALL of the tv shows I am currently watching, but I am the type to finish what I started... with tv shows that is. Blogging, not so much. It's very difficult for me to keep up a good habit of blogging since I am attempting to achieve too much at once. This may be my millionth time of attempting a blog. Here's to a new start, and utter boredom. :)

Red Velvet cake is one of my most favorite cakes ever! Especially in a cake pop form. I swear, I can't get enough red velvet cake pops from my work (at sweet tooth confections). Love it so much that I had to forced myself to start clean eating, which is somewhat working out for me.

So a client of mines was interested in me making them a Golden State Warriors themed cake. I am not too great at cakes, but I definitely needed the practice! What do you guys think? What could I have done to make it better? I could possibly do cake tutorials to show everyone how I do my cakes and to get feedback on how to do it better, quicker or simpler.

Anyway, this recipe of red velvet cake has been my favorite for years, but I feel that I may have to look elsewhere for a favorite red velvet cake. Mainly because this batter doesn't do well sitting in the fridge overnight and being baked the next day. The texture is strange and the taste isn't all that there. It's important for me to find recipes that I love and are good the next day if I plan to run a bakery. 

Mix the dries!

Whisk the liquids. Ooohhhh, lovin' that red color :)

Combine the liquids to the dries. No lumps + Nice thick batter = a happy baker :)

I doubled the recipe, which gave me 2 - 10 inch pans

The finished product. Look how beautiful the cake turned out to be!

So this Red Velvet cake is taken straight from Bakerella. I love the simplicity of putting it together. It literally takes me about 2 minutes to prep and make the batter! It breaks my heart knowing that I need a new recipe. Luckily for the cream cheese frosting, I love it soo much! It is really nice and white, unlike the other recipes I used which was gross and yellow. This recipe also holds itself up really nicely! It is thick and not too sweet. Here are 2 links to a printout of these recipes if you want to print it out yourself. I found this template online and I absolutely just LOVE using it. Red Velvet Cake and Creamy Cream Cheese Frosting (hopefully these links work! I'm still new to this scene)

Okay okay, here is the oh-so amazing red velvet cake recipe that I love so much!!!

Red Velvet Cake 

2 1/2 cups All Purpose flour

2 cups sugar

1 Tablespoon cocoa powder

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon baking soda

2 eggs

1 cup oil

1 cup buttermilk

1 Tablespoon vinegar

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 oz red food coloring

1. Mix (sift) flour, sugar, cocoa powder, salt and baking soda together in a bowl

2. In a seperate bowl, whisk together eggs, oil, buttermilk, vinegar, vanilla and food color. 

3. Slowly add liquids to the bowl of dries, whisking together to make sure that there are no lumps. 

4. This batter will make 24 perfect cupcakes or even 2-8 inch cake pans. 

5. Bake at 350 degrees for 18-20 minutes (for cupcakes) and about 30 minutes for cakes or until a toothpick comes out clean. 

Creamy Cream Cheese Frosting (My favorite!! I will never change this recipe)

8 oz cream cheese, room temp

1 cup butter, room temp

6 cups powdered sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla

1. Beat cream cheese and butter on high

2. Slowly add in 6 cups of powdered sugar. It does not need to be sifted. Be sure to NOT weigh out 6 cups of powdered sugar (which would be about 3 lbs per 6 cups). I made that mistake and the frosting came out to be too thick and too sweet.

3. Add vanilla

xo Baker Who