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Red Velvet Cake

12 slices
Easy
15
A deep mysterious red, well balanced cake, and cream cheese slathered over everything creates quite a tantalising experience.
Recipe Ingredients
How to Prepare
Recipe Tips
Tip: To make buttermilk, Add 10ml vinegar to 230ml milk, set aside for 5 minutes before use.
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Recipe Ingredients

For Cake
300 gDr. Oetker Nona Self-Raising Flour
2 tbspDr. Oetker Nona Cocoa Powder
3 tspDr. Oetker Nona Baking Powder
1 tspDr. Oetker Nona Vanilla Flavour
1 tspSalt
300 gCaster Sugar
2Eggs
270 mlVegetable Oil
240 mlButtermilk
20 mlRed Food Colour (gel)
For Cream Cheese Frosting
500 gCream Cheese
100 gIcing Sugar
60 mlWhipping Cream

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1

Preheat oven to 170˚C. Line 3 round cake pans (20 or 22 cm) with grease proof paper.

2

Place all cake ingredients in a mixing bowl. Mix at medium speed for 3 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally.

3

Divide the batter into 3 cake pans and bake at 170˚C for 25-30 minutes.

4

Cool the cake for 10 minutes and remove the cake from pans, set aside until the cake completely cool.

5

Beat the cream cheese, whipping cream and icing sugar at high speed until stiff peak form.

6

Apply one third of the cream cheese on the first and second layer of cake, sandwich them all together and then spread the remainder of the cream cheese over the top and sides of the cake.

7

Place the cream cheese in the piping bag. Pipe cream cheese on top of the cake and decorate with remained cake crumbs if desired.

  • Tip: To make buttermilk, Add 10ml vinegar to 230ml milk, set aside for 5 minutes before use.