Red Velvet Cake. Hey! Lookin’ a little different ’round here! I am still working out some kinks and trying to get the blog more organized, but a HUGE thanks goes out to Seth from Boy Meets Food for jazzing my site up. I know you must be thinking… ‘another boring red velvet cake recipe?’ Not quite. I can assure you that is one of the best red velvet cakes I have ever had. This recipe comes from a family friend who is famous for this red velvet cake. She has made this cake for all of our birthdays, graduation parties, and other spectacular events. Does that make us trashy? I love the color of the batter. I guess it could also make me appear flaky and immature. My first 3 attempts at this cake failed miserably. I now leave the drama queen behavior up to my husband. I used 2 mini cake pans – about 4 inches around. 5 layers of pure deliciousness. Cream cheese frosting is the only icing that I truly love. Brownie in a mug.
Super Fancy Cake Decorating Tutorial for Broke Monkeys. This is a tutorial to show you how to decorate a cake that makes you look pretty clever.
The beauty of this method is that you can put anything you darn well want on a cake. Your kid likes a certain team and you don't trust Stuffmart Bakery? No problemo. All you need is a picture off the webz (or a coloring book page, or a drawing you did yourself) and you can make any design you want. In this case, Gater wanted a "Dora/Princess" cake. First, bake your cake and let it cool thoroughly. Make your icing; a buttercream made with butter is best. *When you make your icing, you will want to sift the powdered sugar and mix the icing up quickly so you don't get lumps.
Ice your cake. Print out a coloring page, and make sure it is the right size for the top of your cake. It is a good idea at this stage to decide how many colors you want to use in your finished design. Trim your coloring page, and tape it to the back side of a flat piece of glass. Mix up the colors you will need for your design. Peanut Butter Oreo Popsicles & Striped Ice Cream Cake Delicious Links. Triple-Lemon Blueberry Layer Cake. Happy Wednesday!
I hope you had a wonderful Valentine’s Day with all of your lovies. I woke up yesterday morning, with a sudden and unrelenting need for sunshine–in any form. For what I think was the first time, rather than craving a particular food (or ingredient), I was craving a colour: yellow! I knew I had to make and bake something full of sunshine–absolutely bursting with sunshine, from the inside out: this time it was all about flavour. Naturally, a lemon confection immediately came to mind, so I figured it was time to bake a Lemon-Blueberry Layer Cake. So here it is! Raspberry buttermilk cake. As you may have guessed, I have a serious soft spot for everyday cakes.* I call them Dinner Party Cakes.
Or Potluck Cakes. Or I Heard You Were Coming and So I Baked You a Cake, cakes. Or If You Bake a Cake, The People Will Come cakes, as a fresh-from-the-oven cake has a way of drawing friends around your coffee table on an otherwise blah Monday night. Chocolate Fudge Layer Cake. I never ate cake until I was 8 or 9 years old.
But I sure ate a lot of frosting! I was that kid at birthday parties who hopped up and down when the corner piece – the one with the profuse amount of frosting flourishes – was being passed out. I’d extract every last bit of sugary, fluffy stuff and leave the cake on the little paper plate. It wasn’t until the middle of my elementary school years that a frustrated parent of a friend finally urged me to try just a bite of the cake “just this once” that I discovered the treat I was missing.
Suffice it say I’ve eaten plenty of cake – and frosting – this week as we’ve made our way through this incredibly rich and decadent Chocolate Fudge Layer Cake. 6-Layer Rich Chocolate Malted & Toasted-Marshmallow Cake. There’s something about layer cakes that always brings me great comfort–from both making them and eating them.
To me, layer cakes are baked bliss, truly. Don’t get me wrong, cupcakes are wonderful; cupcakes are sweet; cupcakes are darling (and perky), but they just aren’t layer cakes. Perhaps part of the glory of layer cakes is the intrigue of what’s beneath all of that swirled frosting, or the wonder of what fills the stacked layers under a perfectly composed exterior. Ever notice how layer cakes will offer one or two little hints as to what’s inside, without giving too much away? Think about a beautifully frosted pink cake with a few white sprinkles and a single strawberry on top: one could imagine that there are layers of vanilla cake inside with possible alternating layers of sweet pink strawberry cake, or maybe even layer up on layer of strawberry cake with fresh strawberry jam in between.
Truth is, we never can tell, but as far as I’m concerned, I’m always ready to find out.