Red Velvet Cake and Cream Cheese Frosting

Red velvet is my favorite cake and with a good cream cheese frosting it is Heaven in my mouth!!! I've attempted it before and it was not good. It was dense, not red enough in color and it just didn't taste good. I used butter cream and not cream cheese. HUGE mistake!! It was all wrong. It tricked me into thinking red velvet is hard to make because my first try went so wrong. Yesterday I gave it another go using this recipe and it was perfect!!!! Make sure to use the exact measurements.

Red Velvet Cake

2 1/2 cups all purpose flour

2 cups sugar

1 Tablespoon cocoa

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon baking soda

2 eggs

1 1/2 cups oil

1 cup buttermilk

1 Tablespoon vinegar

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 oz. red food coloring

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Grease and flour two 8 inch cake pans.
Lightly stir eggs in a medium bowl with a wire whisk. Add remaining liquid ingredients and stir together with whisk until blended. Set aside.
Place all the dry ingredients in your mixing bowl and stir together really good with another wire whisk.
Add wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix on medium-high for about a minute or until completely combined.

Bake for 35-45 minutes. Mine took 45, but it depends on your oven.

Cream Cheese Frosting

10 oz cream cheese (room temp)

1 cup butter (room temp)

1 teaspoon vanilla

5 cups sifted powder sugar

Beat cream cheese, butter, and vanilla. Mix in 1 cup on powder sugar at a time.

Put one layer of frosting in between the 2 cakes. Then frost the rest of the cake and enjoy!! 

The flag decoration is from Target for $2. It is so cute and simple. And I wish I had a better picture of the inside when we cut it, but as you can see it was so awesome everyone dug in right away and this is what was left to snap a pic of. :) 

Change the food coloring and you can make your dessert "any color of the rainbow" Velvet. Here are Blue Velvet cupcakes I made for a baby boy baby shower

Bake cupcakes 18-20 minutes using the same recipe as above.