Red Velvet Cake

Red Velvet Cake

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So as I mentioned, Jim requested a red velvet cake for his birthday cake. I had just gotten my Food Network Magazine and lo and behold!  Their cover has a beautiful red velvet cake on it and there was a whole slew of red velvet recipes.  I got to work.

For those who wish to get to the meat of the matter this is what I was left with:

The rest of you who want to read the whole story read on.

Ok, so first of all red food coloring is evil. It is like a bad virus and contaminated everything I touched. My hands were red, my counters were red, all my dish towels were red. It was a mess. But anything for my man. 

I wasn't impressed with this recipe! I baked it exactly according to the directions and when I tested it the toothpick came out very wet. So I put it in for 3 more minutes and the layers came out soooooo dry that they crumbled.  Ick. Anyway, here are some pics from along the way. Remember, I'm a teacher not a photographer so they are what they are.

Dry ingredients. As if you've never seen them before.

So then I made the cream cheese icing which is so good it wipes out all the evil the red food coloring put out into my kitchen.   I would use that recipe again for sure. It would be great eaten with a spoon alone in a room with the door closed in bed. Or on graham crackers...whatever.

Don't forget to do this with parchment or waxed paper!
Keeps your platter neat.

See all the crumbs?  See the big piece that fell off?
Cake isn't supposed to do that. I was disappointed.

The reality left behind.

I think the end result was pretty so I glammed the pics up with some, what else, red velvet behind it. I'm so creative.  Avant garde you may say.

Clearly not staged in any way. That's Molly's nose in the background.
It was too dry for my taste.  The cake, not Molly's nose.

Oh and I don't think I ever told you we painted the dining room so guess what??  We painted the dining room!  It's a pale gray/blue and I like it. It's hard to show in these pics and I couldn't let you see the state of my dining room (messy) so I took pics that wouldn't show that.   The main color is Valspar Sea Salt Blue which is the color in our living room. I dumped in gray paint until I got the color I wanted.

Before

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Cheers!
Jenny