So I've been baking for about a year now, but it's taken me this long to actually get around to creating this blog. Subsequent posts will detail my foray into the world of baking, looking at both the successes and the disasters.
Back in January 2012, having watched a lot of Ace of Cakes (a great programme documenting the incredible Charm City Cakes), I was intrigued by the idea of the red velvet sponge. So I started my baking endeavours with a recipe from one of Lorraine Pascale's programmes, the Red Velvet cake. Obviously this recipe is for a three-tier cake, so I usually make the small or medium tier. I made several variations of this, including using the quantities for the small tier in order to make cupcakes:
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| Halloween Red Velvet Cake |
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| Spring Red Velvet Cake |
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| Red Velvet Cupcakes |
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| Red Velvet Pyramid Cakes and Cupcakes |
I usually make a simple vanilla-flavoured buttercream for these cakes, and buy the sugar-craft decorations, although I hope to start making my own sugar-craft soon. This cake is a fairly simple one to make, but tastes amazing. The only issue I came up against was the red food colouring - I have been using supermarket liquid food colouring, but I may have to think about using powdered food colouring, as I can never quite seem to get the colouring exactly right. Does anyone have any recommendations?
Beckie.
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