To Bakerella with.....

xox LOVE xox

A while ago one of our favourite bakers/bloggers Bakerella became ill. And being that Bakerella feels like family I decided to bake her somethin nice...in her honour i decided to bake a Red Velvet Cake. It is one of her favourites, and went for a love/heart theme. Her recipe will follow.

Here are all the ingredients for the most delicious and moist red Velvet Cake ever. And it is the sexiest colour of red that you have ever seen

Now the recipe is easy, combine all the dry ingredients together....

Then in a mixer combine all the wet ingredients. Slowly while mixing add the dry spoon by spoon to the wet ingredients....easy. It will make a beautiful wet runny batter.

Then I evenly divided the batter into two heart shaped tins. Too cute.

Now you can do this by weighing each tin and weighing the batter evenly or as I did use a 1cup measure and pour into the tins.

Give the tins a bit of a bang on the counter to rid any pesky air bubbles and settle the ingredients. And pop in the oven.

When they emerge they are dark and moist and glorious

After leveling them off for the frosting you can see how moist on the inside.

Yummmmm. Want another pic here you go.....

mmmmm Moist +++

While the cakes were baking I whipped up a delicious Cream Cheese frosting

Perfect accompanyment for this cake.

And after cooling the cakes I divided the frosting into thirds.

1 third went into the middle of the cake, 1 third went to frosting the outside of the cake

and the other third went into my piping bag for experimentation

Sorry about the photo it was getting dark in my kitchen :D

I decided on topping the outer edge of the cake with swirl from my large star tip

and around the bottom edge with a little shell boarder.

Then topped the swirles with the cutest little heart Jimmies.

Adorable,

And I hope that even though Bakerella couldn't try my cake

She can rest knowing the she inspires us everyday with her strength

And widens our hips with her cooking

Please visit her blog listed in the links section

And let her inspire you to bake.....

Bakerella's Red Velvet Recipe

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.
Pour into cake pans and then drop the pans on the counter a few times to release any air bubbles.
Bake for about 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
After about ten minutes, remove from pans and cool completely on a wire rack. I also cover in plastic wrap while the cakes cool.
Then make the frosting

Cream Cheese Frosting

8 oz. cream cheese, room temperature
1 cup butter, room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla
6 cups confectioners’ sugar

Sift sugar and set aside.
Beat cream cheese and butter on high until creamy. Add vanilla.
Then, add the sugar in batches. Scrape down the sides in between each addition.
And frost away