Red Velvet Cake
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Cheers!
Jenny
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.
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| 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.
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| Don't forget to do this with parchment or waxed paper! Keeps your platter neat. |
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| See all the crumbs? See the big piece that fell off? Cake isn't supposed to do that. I was disappointed. |
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Before |
Cheers!
Jenny
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