Po Leen the baker

RED VELVET CAKE WITH CREAM CHEESE FROSTING

Once, there was a phase where everyone baked, bought and tasted red velvet. It's still the in thing with cakes and cupcakes.

I honestly think it's not that yummy, a bit bitter in fact and you can OD on the cream cheese frosting. I had my first try at Hummingbird Cafe at Bangsar and I never had it again.

But anyhuu, I bake, and I baked it! My first successful cake, which is the second cake I ever baked in my 25 years of life.

I'm not too sure about the taste because I'm down with the cold, can't smell nor taste! ARGH! And I don't know why my frosting isn't white but yellowish @.@

What you need?

1. A laptop


2. Internet Connection
I have maxis mobile fiber optic internet connection at home! wee~


3. Recipe from popular baker such as Joy the Baker and Martha Stewart
The reason why I chose Joy because I read her blog, she's fab and Martha because I didn't have the full ingredients for the cream cheese frosting recipe in Joy =p


4. Ingredients and tools
I substituted buttermilk with milk + vinegar, too lazy to look for buttermilk which is not actually made of butter.

According to DC Cupcakes, if you watch it on Astro they use apple cider vinegar because it's sweeter compared to basic white vinegar, which I totally forgotten together with the vanilla essence and baking soda. hehe. The reason why you add vinegar and baking soda is to give that fluff.

I only realised it after I put the first layer into the oven and I took it out, and added some vanilla essence, wahahaha, I'm a lousy baker.

Heat the oven first at 360 degress before you start lining the cake. And in Martha Stewart's recipe, she said butter the pan, line the parchment, butter that and add a dash of flour, which I found very useful to pull the cake out of the tin and later remove the paper.

The amount of colouring is used for the cake, is OMG so much! I had to use the whole bottle of colouring and that also is less than I'm suppose to use. Apparently you can substitute food colouring because it's not so healthy with beetroot juice.

Pretty red!

In my traditional oven over the fire.

Looks ugly here but successful first layer because the temperature gauge on the oven is spoiled, had to estimate the 'largeness' of the fire.

Voila!

Forgot to take pictures of the frosting preparation part, was eagerly waiting for the cake to cool. But frosting seems very sweet.

Looks gross, lol.



"BON APPETITE"