For my birthday this weekend, I wanted to have some people over for a low-key night with cake, ice cream and board games. The cake: red velvet, the ice cream: Dreyer's Slow Curned French Vanilla, the board game: Cranium. I used Sylvia's Red Velvet Cake recipe. No, not because it had my name, but because the reviews were really good on the website and I've seen her make this exact cake on Emeril Live.
You need a lot of red food coloring to give the cake it's signature color. 2 ounces to be exact. Since there is so much, I think I would consider buying an organic food coloring for next time. I added an extra stick of butter on accident. Yes, really "on accident". I didn't notice until I was making the cream cheese frosting and thought, "Doh! I hope I didn't ruin the cake." Well, I thought the cake turned out to be really moist so I might consider adding that extra stick of butter each time I make it. The other changes I made were that I used 8 inch pans instead of 9 inch and I didn't add any pecans in the frosting.
This might be my favorite cake now! OM NOM NOM...
