Red Velvet Cake

Hi everyone! 

The Red Velvet Cake I made successfully with the recipe

linked. 

My first post is about a Red Velvet Cake I had the pleasure of making when a friend sent me the link to the recipe about a month ago. 

I got the urge to bake it not too long after and this was the result! After such a successful first time baking this cake and creating the incredible cream cheese icing, I began to think of other ways I could use this recipe. 

For example cupcakes, rectangular cakes for shaping, a three tier cake! The list was endless. Eventually, my best friend's birthday was soon to arrive so I took the bull by the horns and experimented with the recipe about making it a rectangular cake instead of a two layer round cake. 

Red Velvet Cake in between two regular vanilla
bean sponge cakes (Shaped like the character
GIR from Invader Zim) 

The recipe calls for 23cm round tins for the regular recipe - but if you would like to make one large rectangular cake (perfect for carving or shaping) use a 20 x 30cm rectangular cake tin. Grease the tin and lay baking paper (I can assure you, its much better than cooking spray or only greasing). Bake the cakes in a 180 degree fan-forced oven for 30 - 35 minutes. It will be brown around the edges but don't stress, you can easily cut it off or disguise it under some icing ;). 

I made two of the red velvet cakes in rectangular form and this is what they look like in the three layer cake I made for my best friend's birthday. 

Here is the link to the red velvet recipe if you would like to try yourself!

http://www.bestrecipes.com.au/recipe/Red-Velvet-Cake-L7335.html 

Happy Baking!!