Red Velvet cake

Little hands enjoyed decorating with some sprinkles =)

This is a cake that has long been on my list of must-make-soons. Soon can be days or years it seems, so many recipes for good things to try and not enough hours in the day. Some recipes stand the year in year out to do list though, and this is one of them. I first came across red velvet cake in some of my American cook books, and they looked like nothing I had ever seen before, then a couple of months before I joined the Daring Bakers they covered this cake (choose whichever Red Velvet recipe you like), and I wanted to make it more that ever!

Hubby said this looks very much like quattro red paint!

Last week a new cookbook arrived, I ordered it after hearing Maria raving about it, and here are three recipes from the same book from Maria, Rosie and Margaret. The book today is Cakes Galore by Valerie Barrett. A paperback book with, well, you know cakes galore! I saw the red velvet cake and I knew its time had come, so I ordered some red food colouring paste, and here it is.

I’m not shy of using colouring in icings, but it did feel a little bit over the top using so much, my little one loved the redness of it, and it tasted good, it was just a bit odd eating something so red! I’m glad I made it though, and now I have crossed something off my to make list.

I’ve been tagged three times this week, and thank you to Elle, Vi, Sandy and Anna. I’m a bit embarrassed that I have not done three I received last year, so I’ll work backwards and hopefully get them all done over the next few posts!
Vi’s and Sandy's tag is to describe yourself in six words, following on from Brenda’s lead I asked Hubby and this is what he said:

Trustworthy
Beautiful
Caring
Intelligent
Emotional
Gentle
I’m passing this one onto anyone on my Places I Like to Visit who would like to do this =)