Red Velvetian Weekend

Originally posted in September 7th 2012 in my old blog: http://amaprima.blogspot.co.id/2012/09/red-velvetian-weekend.html

My first post is finally here, so happy to choose this writing as the first one to post. You know, there's always something special in baking a cake and I will tell you one of them stories.
So it was a long holiday, totally, 14 days last month on August. I have like… all the time in the world ^^
Can't find anything meaningful to do (lame...hahaha), I did make this Red Velvet Cake with a recipe from a wellknown site http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/paula-deen/grandmother-pauls-red-velvet-cake-recipe/index.html.You can originally copied that recipe, but here I’ve made some adjustment on the composition of the ingredient. Since there are some ingredients that is too much on the portion and will spare you much of a leftover unused and some that is not necessarily substantial to the success rate of baking the cake. Haha…^^


Not to mention that I didn’t like much with the texture from the original recipe. The cake texture come out quite easily crushed. I know that on the original recipe they don’t use much baking powder or something similar. But it can be substitute by using more eggs with the appropriate composition to get the desired cake texture, its fluffyness and softness.

Interested to start?

Before the cooking begin, let’s start by going to your closest Grocery Store that sells baking ingredients. Choose the biggest and most crowded store, since they will sell only fresh groceries.

If you lived in Jogjakarta, you are definitely must go find the groceries on “Toko Bahan Kue dan Roti IntiS*r*”, in Yogayakarta, you'll find this baking shop  trmendously reliable.

Get yourself these things:

Sugar, you’ll only need 2 cups (227gr x 2 =452gr)
1/2 pound butter, at room temperature
2 eggs
2 tablespoons cocoa powder
2 ounces red food coloring
2 1/2 cups cake flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup buttermilk , you can substitute with a buttermilk essence, 2 tablespoon.
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon baking soda

Icing:

1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese (original recipe) but I only use 125 gr of creamcheese by Che*s, avalailable on Indonesian groceries store
1 stick butter, softened, (original recipe) but I only use 100 g
Garnish with strawberry and Kiwi, slice as you like.

My adjustment are:

Add 2 more Eggs, without the white part, and another 1 whole, to make a bigger cake.
You can substitute half portion (125gr) of the butter cream with original butter (mention BlueB*nd or Forfit* butter) ^^
For more eggs that you add, you’ll need more TBM, 1 tablespoon is enough, for a bigger and fluffy cake, this is optional, baking powder is enough if you prefer.

Now it’s the cooking part!

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. In a mixing bowl, cream the sugar and butter, beat until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time and mix well after each addition, also the TBM (baking cream). Mix cocoa and food coloring together and then add to sugar mixture; mix well. Sift together flour and salt. Add flour mixture to the creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk. Blend in vanilla. In a small bowl, combine baking soda, add to mixture. Pour batter into 3 (8-inch) round greased and floured pans. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Remove from heat and cool completely before frosting.

As for the icing, you can blend cream cheese and butter together in a mixing bowl, add sugar and blend.

Spread the icing on to tha cooled cake, and dress it with Kiwi and strawbeery. In the picture, I only put Kiwi and strawberry in line, but it has make an overall cute dress for the cake.

Can’t wait to try it out? Make sure you spare about Rp. 100.000 more or less to buy all the creamery and stuff.

Oh, there are also some basic cooking knowledge, one of them is about the comparison about Cups and grams. The tricky thing is, we can’t convert cups with grams, since cups measure volume, and grams measure weighs. But from the internet, I found that we can assume that 1 cup is equal to 240gr.

I’m not quite sure, but since I’ve practiced the recipe and the cake come out nice and delicious, so I guess the conversion is quite reliable^^.



What do you have for this week end? Try baking your very own Red Velvet Cake! Spend baking it with your loved ones^^ Happy baking!