The 4th of July is just a few days away. These Whipped Ganache Devil Dogs would make a welcome addition to any celebration. I’ve added red, white and blue sprinkles to help celebrate the July 4th festivities but the sprinkles are totally optional.
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Red Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting | Bakewell Junction
Today I’d like to share a Red Velvet Cake with you. My husband’s co-worker loves Red Velvet Cake and nudged my husband to get me to make one. I searched the internet and most cake recipes looked about the same except for the ones that used beets to color the cake instead of food coloring but I didn’t see many of those. Some had a little more of this or that but this one had coffee in the ingredients which I found interesting and so that cinched it.
Red Velvet Cake has a little cocoa in it but it can’t be considered a chocolate cake. It certainly has a great look to it with the vivid coloring. Now I must confess, I don’t like Red Velvet Cake. I know that sounds crazy but…if I want chocolate then I really want chocolate and I have so many recipes that are really chocolatey to turn to, many that I’ve shared with you. Plus I don’t like the idea of so much food coloring in a cake. I use food coloring in cookies and frosting but it just bothers me to put it in a cake, especially so much of it.
How do I know that this cake is good? Well, the frosting is so good you could sit there with a bowl of it and eat it until it’s gone. My husband and all his co-workers deemed it fantastic. One co-worker ate a quarter of the cake for two days in a row – that’s half the cake! The cake coloring makes a great impression too. As a baker, I liked that the cake baked to an even height and I didn’t have to cut the top to even it out before frosting.
Enjoy!
Red Velvet Cake
Yield: 12 servings Cook Time: 40 minutes
Batter:
Frosting:
Directions:
Step 1: For the batter: Combine flour, baking soda, baking powder, cocoa powder and salt in a medium bowl. In a large mixing bowl, beat together sugar and oil. Add eggs, buttermilk, vanilla and food coloring and beat until combined. Be careful with the batter, as the added food coloring will stain. Add coffee and vinegar and mix until combined.
Step 2: Add dry ingredients to wet ingredients in small batches. Mix until combined after each addition. The batter will be pretty thin but this is okay. Pour an even amount of batter into two 9 inch cake pans that have been sprayed with cooking spray and coated with flour.
Step 3: Adjust the oven rack to the middle of the oven and preheat oven to 325 degrees. Place the pans on the middle rack and bake for 30 to 40 minutes. Check the cakes with a toothpick; when it comes out clean, the cake is done. I believe my oven runs a little cool, so I checked the cakes at 30 minutes and they were nowhere near ready so I rotated them and put the right one on the left and vice versa. I checked them again at 35 and 40 minutes. One cake was done at 40 minutes and the other needed another 2 minutes (this one must have had a smidgen more batter).
Step 4: Let the cakes cool 15 to 20 minutes. Remove the cakes from the pans and let them cool completely on cooling racks.
Step 5: For the frosting: While the cakes cool, add butter and cream cheese to a large mixing bowl. Beat 4 to 5 minutes. I beat them on high using a hand-held mixer. Beat in vanilla extract. Mix in the powdered sugar at a lower speed (this prevents having powdered sugar everywhere).
Step 6: Assembly: Place the completely cooled bottom layer of the cake on a serving plate. Frost the top of the cake with a spatula. Carefully place the completely cooled top layer of the cake on top of the frosted layer. Frost the top of the cake and then frost the sides.
Storing: Store in a sealed plastic container for a few days.
Enjoy!!!
Cake recipe from Divas Can Cook, The Best Red Velvet Cake recipe.
Frosting recipe from guest author Garrett McCord on Simply Recipes, Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting recipe.
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A few weeks ago when my family visited I had sprained my foot, so I needed to go back to a foolproof and easy recipe for dessert. This is a wonderful very chocolaty bundt cake recipe that I’d pulled out of an old Bon Appetit magazine a few years ago.
I’ve been using my Mom’s original bundt pan from the 1970’s – it’s harvest gold – for this recipe but I don’t think I can do that for much longer because some of the coating is starting to chip. I think I’ll just have to retire it and keep it for the memories. I don’t mind getting a new pan from Nordic Ware though because I love that their products are made in America and they’re well made.
I’m told this cake is dangerous and addicting, so try it but don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Be sure to spray your bundt pan with plenty of cooking spray before pouring the batter into the pan. And, a bit of harvest gold peeking through the middle.
Ready for the oven.
Hot out of the oven.
Iced and ready to go.
Don’t you want a slice? I wish there were scratch ‘n sniff computers, so you would know how good this smells.
Enjoy.
Chocolate Cinnamon Bundt Cake with Mocha Frosting
Yield: 12 – 16 servings Cook Time: 50 minutes
Ingredients
Cake:
Icing:
Step 1: For the cake: Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Boil water and dissolve cocoa powder and espresso powder in it. Combine flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt in a bowl and mix well.
Step 2: Take about 2 tablespoons of the flour mixture and mix it into the chocolate chips in a small bowl and set aside. Mixing the flour with the chocolate chips will help prevent the chips from falling while baking along with some additional steps I’ve incorporated into the process.
Step 3: Beat brown sugar, vegetable oil and vanilla in the bowl of a stand mixer to blend. Beat in eggs one at a time until well incorporated. Beat for another minute until smooth. Add about half of the flour mixture until combined, then beat in the cocoa mixture until combined and then beat in the remaining flour mixture until combined.
Step 4: Spray a large bundt pan liberally with cooking spray. Pour some of the batter (about 1 1/2 cups) into the bottom of the bundt pan. Fold chocolate chips into the remaining batter. Pour the remaining batter into the bundt pan.
Step 5: Bake about 50 minutes. Test with a toothpick inserted near center at 45 minutes – it should be clean. If the toothpick isn’t clean test again in 5 minutes. Cool cake in the pan for 10 minutes. Gently jostle the cake to loosen it from the pan sides. Depan cake inverted onto a cooling. Cool another 30 minutes.
Step 6: For the icing: While the cake is cooling, stir brown sugar, espresso powder, and water in small saucepan or small frying pan over medium heat. Stir continually until sugar melts. Remove from heat and mix in butter and chocolate chips. Stir until butter and chocolate melt and butter is completely incorporated. Cool until frosting thickens a little.
Step 7: Transfer cake to a serving dish. Drizzle icing over cake making sure it drips down the sides a little. Let cake cool completely. It’s time to eat. If you have any leftovers, this cake keeps well at room temperature. If you like chocolate cold, chill the cake in the refrigerator for a few hours.
Enjoy!!!
Recipe adapted slightly from Bon Appetit.
For Memorial Day my husband and I were invited to my friend and neighbor’s house for a barbecue. His brother and sister were visiting and we hadn’t seen them for a few years, so it was a nice get together for us all. I usually like to bring a few things but they didn’t want me to do any work until I suggested making some dessert. Who can say no to Devil Dogs and Fauxtess Cupcakes. Yes, I made them again.
There are plenty of copy-cat recipes for Devil Dogs on the internet but I haven’t tried them because I get so many protests from my husband, family and friends that have tasted this recipe. Although I’m not partial to the filling, this recipe is a hit with everyone that’s tried it.
Enjoy.
Homemade Devil Dogs
Yield: 15 – 18 cake sandwiches Cook Time: 12 – 14 minutes
Ingredients
Cakes:
Filling:
Directions:
Step 1: For the cakes: Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper.
Step 2: Whisk together the first five ingredients for the cake to combine. Stir in the remaining three ingredients until moistened.
Step 3: Transfer the mixture into a large Ziploc plastic bag. Cut a 1/2 inch from the corner of the bag. Pipe 3 1/2 by 1 inch logs, about 2 inches apart on the cookie sheets. There should be approximately 12 per cookie sheet. Bake 12 – 14 minutes. The cakes should be firm to the touch. Cool on wire racks.
Step 4: For the filling: In a medium saucepan, begin heating milk over medium heat. Whisk in the flour. Continue cooking over medium heat until thickened for about 5 minutes. Be sure to whisk often while cooking. Cool mixture in a bowl.
Step 5: Using a hand mixer, cream the butter and sugar together in a bowl until fluffy. Add the vanilla and milk mixture and beat until smooth.
Step 6: Pair together like sized cakes. Using a spatula, spread about 2 – 3 tablespoons of the filling on the flat side of one of the paired cakes and top with the second cake, flat side down. Repeat with remaining cakes.
Enjoy!!!
Cakes adapted from Family Circle.
Filling adapted from Country Living.
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