Red Velvet Cake

​This may not be a traditional looking wedding cake but it may just be the most delicious wedding cake that I've ever made.  The bride and groom that I created this special cake for requested a red velvet cake with cream cheese icing.  Period.  I wanted to create a cake that was not only delicious but also represented the theme of the wedding, the newly married couple and their newly formed family.  I used white chocolate to create simple leaves to vine up around the cake.  I also made a chocolate peanut butter nest out of chow mein noodles to adorn the top of the cake and inside the nest - gum paste bride and groom birds and six tiny baby birds.  (One for each of the children in this precious family.)  The cake turned out really cute but even more importantly, it was delicious!

Red Velvet Cake
2 ¼ cups flour                    
1 ½ teaspoons baking soda              
pinch salt                     
1 cup buttermilk       
1 Tablespoon white vinegar              
1 teaspoon vanilla                 
2 eggs
2 Tablespoons cocoa
1 ounce bottle red food coloring
12 Tablespoons butter
1 ½ cup sugar

Whisk flour, salt and baking soda in bowl.

Whisk buttermilk, vinegar, vanilla and eggs.

Mix cocoa with food coloring until paste forms.

​Beat butter and sugar on medium speed in mixer for 2 minutes.

Add red cocoa mixture.

Add 1/3 of flour mixture.  Add ½ buttermilk mixture.  Repeat.

​Scrape into prepared pans.

Bake 25 minutes at 350.

​Cool on wire racks.

Frosting
16 Tablespoons butter
16 ounces cream cheese
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla
4 cups powdered sugar
3 Tablespoons heavy whipping cream 
pinch salt

Combine ingredients in mixing bowl and blend until smooth.

​Bride and groom birds.

​6 tiny baby birds to represent the couple's six children.

​Non traditional wedding cakes are becoming more popular all the time.  I think I like this trend.  

Ciao!

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