Name: This Red Velvet Layer Cake is utterly scrumptious
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 60 min
Total time: 105 min
Yield: 12-14

This Red Velvet Layer Cake is utterly scrumptious

A crowd-pleasing recipe everyone will love.

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Serves 12-14

Prep

45M

Cook

Total

1H 45M

Ingredients

2 tblsps red liquid food colouring

1 cup buttermilk

250g unsalted butter, chopped, at room temperature

1 1⁄2 cups caster sugar

3 eggs, at room temperature

2 cups self-raising flour

1⁄3 cup cocoa powder

1⁄2 x 10g packet freeze-dried strawberries, crumbled

Halved fresh strawberries and extra crumbled freeze-dried strawberries to decorate

FROSTING

325g unsalted butter, chopped, at room temperature

2 1⁄4 cups icing sugar mixture

Method

Grease three 20cm round cake pans. Line bases and sides with baking paper.

Stir the red colouring into the buttermilk in a jug.

Beat butter and sugar in a large bowl of an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time, until combined.

In two batches, fold in the combined sifted our and cocoa, alternately, with the buttermilk mixture. Divide evenly among pans. Smooth tops.

Cook the two cakes in a moderately slow oven (160 °C) for about 30 minutes, or until cooked when tested. Remove from oven. Stand in pans for 10 minutes. Turn out onto wire racks to cool. Repeat with the remaining cake.

To make frosting, beat butter in the same clean bowl of the electric mixer until pale. Gradually beat in 1⁄2 cup sugar at a time, until combined. Beat in cooled chocolate. Transfer mixture to a piping bag fitted with a 1.5cm plain nozzle.

Place one cake onto a serving plate. Pipe frosting, in a single layer, over the top. Sprinkle with half the freeze-dried strawberries. Carefully top with another cake. Repeat layering with remaining frosting, strawberries and cake, finishing with a layer of frosting.

Decorate the cake with fresh strawberries and extra freeze-dried strawberries.

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