Red Velvet Cake with Butter Cream Frosting
This red velvet cake is so delicious, made with buttercream and decorated with the yummiest buttercream frosting. You really do to need any special equipment to make layered cake.
Ingredients
- 2 1/2 cups All-purpose flour
- 1 cup Sugar
- 1 tbsp Baking powder
- 1/2 tsp Baking soda
- 1/2 cup Cacao powder
- 1/2 Vegetable oil
- 3 drops Red red gel coloring
- 2 Eggs
- 1 cup Milk
Buttercream Frosting
- 1 cup Softened unsalted butter
- 3 cups Fine sugar
- 2 tbsp Milk
Instructions
- Sieve flour and add sugar, cacao powder, baking powder, soda and salt and combine.
- Add eggs and beat with an electric hand mixer. Slowly add milk and oil and combine
- Add the food coloring until you get the right red color.
- Prepare the baking pans by oiling and flouring then divide the batter into 3 portions. if using one baking tin, cook each layer at a time.
- Bake in a preheated oven at 180 degrees C and bake for 35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
- Prepare the frosting by beating butter for 5 minutes using the hand mixture until it turns from yellow to white. Add fine sugar in bits and beat on high until the frosting is thick. Add milk as needed to thin it out.
- Once the cakes have baked and cooled completely start assembling.
- Level the cakes by trimming the top until they're all flat
- Place the first layer on a cake stand and spread the frosting on top, put the next layer and repeat until all the layers are up. Spread the frosting on the sides of the cakes until the cake layers are coated with frosting.
- Blend the cake pieces we cut out into a crumble and spread on the cake as you wish.
- Refrigerate and enjoy after.