Hey everyone! Today is my husbands birthday and he loves Red Velvet Cake. I don't know why, I don't see the appeal, it's very bitter and blah to me, but he loves it. So.... I thought I'd mix his favorite and MY favorite (cheesecake) and see how things turn out.
I searched the internet for awhile and found many recipes but I mostly stuck to just one. I used this cake recipe AND cheesecake recipe. For ingredients and instructions - check this out:
I have made many, many different types of cream cheese frosting on my own and I always taste the powdered sugar. I am MUCH better at just adding yummies to already made frosting, if needed. So for this cake, I just used store bought, creamy cream cheese frosting.
I bought a spring form pan (finally) just for this project and was super excited to use it. I can't believe how much easier everything was and even more fun!! Can you believe it? It made cooking more fun.... no, BAKING! I hate baking, to be honest and now it's fun. LOVE my spring form pan! I used it on all three layers... the 2 with Red Velvet and 1 Cheesecake.
May I mention - - do you have ANY idea how much 2oz of food coloring is? I thought I'd be fine with my normal red that comes in the 4 pack, it was full, I'd be good. Right? Nah... that's only 0.3oz. What the hey? I had to make an extra run to the store (across the street.... lol) to get two large bottles, 1oz each, of red food coloring. Holy cow - that's a lot! My hands look as thought I had a bloody run in with an intruder. Luckily I changed my shirt before I started. Anyhoo - enough on that.
I'm not a layer person.... (remember the orange layered cake - Jan '12??) .... but I followed these instructions to a T and it turned out great. I'm proud. I had to trim a little bit around the edges, but all 3 layers stuck together and were completely servable and edible. Yay!! Success!! (Now, the visual appearance of the outside was not so fancy, but I hid most of that with pretty red sprinkles!!)
This cake was a bit rich for the little ones - I just ate the middle cheesecake layer. However, the birthday boy enjoyed it. Hope he plans on eating the rest. xoxo
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