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Red Velvet Layer Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

This recipe details how to make a classic red velvet layer cake featuring cocoa, buttermilk, and vibrant red coloring, finished with a cream cheese frosting and decorative chocolate shards.
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Prep Time 30 minutes
Cook Time 1 hour
Total Time 1 hour 30 minutes
Servings: 10 people
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Calories: 520
Ingredients Equipment Method Nutrition Notes

Ingredients
  

For the Cake
  • 400 g caster sugar
  • 165 g unsalted butter
  • 4 eggs medium
  • 40 g cocoa powder
  • 2 tsp extra strong red food colouring
  • 1.5 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1 tbsp milk of your choice
  • 335 ml buttermilk
  • 400 g plain flour all-purpose
  • 1.5 tsp bicarbonate of soda baking soda
  • 3 tsp white wine vinegar
For the Frosting and Decoration
  • 150 g unsalted butter room temperature
  • 150 g icing sugar confectioners
  • 300 g full fat cream cheese
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • navy blue food colouring oil based
  • yellow food colouring oil based
  • white food colouring oil based
  • 100 g white chocolate
  • 35 ml double cream heavy cream
  • red food colouring
  • 80 g clear boiled sweets around 15 individual, hard candies

Equipment

  • Mixing bowl Large
  • Cake tins Three 6-inch deep round tins
  • Palette knife

Method
 

  1. Preheat oven to 170°C [325°F] or 150°C fan. Grease and line 3 deep 6 inch tins.
  2. Cream together sugar and butter until pale and fluffy. Beat in eggs one at a time.
  3. Mix cocoa powder, red food colouring, milk, and vanilla into a paste and stir into butter mix.
  4. Add half of the flour and buttermilk and mix. Repeat with remaining portions until smooth.
  5. Mix bicarbonate of soda and vinegar, let fizz, then stir into batter. Divide batter into tins.
  6. Bake for 50–60 minutes. Cool 10 mins in tins, then turn out to cool completely on wire racks.
  7. Line a tray with paper and bake boiled sweets at 200°C for 5–8 mins until melted. Cool and break.
  8. Beat butter and icing sugar, then add cream cheese and vanilla. Color with navy coloring.
  9. Layer and frost cooled cakes. Chill. Melt white chocolate with cream, color red for ganache.
  10. Decorate cake with shards and red ganache drip. Add details with yellow and white food coloring.

Nutrition

Calories: 520kcal

Notes

This recipe is for a dessert and does not fit the theme of easy healthy dinner recipes for busy nights.

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