Hi friends, it's Rosie from I Heart Recipes, and in this video, I'm making a
delicious homemade red velvet cake. I'm going to decorate the cake with
delicious rose swirls made out of cream cheese frosting.
And I'm collaborating with one of my favorite YouTube channels, At Home with
Nikki. She does everything from interior decorating to cooking, and she'll be
making red velvet waffles. At the end of this video, I will leave a link to her
video! So first things first, you're going to need some all-purpose flour. Pour your
all-purpose flour into a large mixing bowl. And now we're going to sprinkle in
some baking soda along with some table salt. And our last dry ingredient will
be unsweetened baking cocoa. Sprinkle that in there, and now we're going to
grab a whisk and we're going to whisk everything until it's well combined and
until there are no lumps. In a separate bowl, we're going to work with our wet
ingredients. You're going to need two large eggs. By the way, all of my
ingredients are at room temperature. I am going to beat the eggs, and now I'm ready
to start pouring in my sugar. You're going to need lots of sugar for this
recipe, so do not be alarmed. Snd now we're going to pour in some vegetable
oil. Followed by the vegetable oil, you'll need some buttermilk. And someone's going
to ask me, can I use regular milk? I highly suggest sticking to the recipe
for best results, so that's the answer! Please don't forget to give this video a
thumbs up - thank you in advance. And we are just going to mix everything until
it's nice and creamy. And at this time, I remember that I almost forgot to add
vanilla extract. So I'm going to do that now. So now we're just going to mix until
everything is well combined. And now we're ready to go ahead and start
combining the wet ingredients with the dry. So we're going to add a little bit
of the wet ingredients into the bowl with the dry ingredients at a time. Don't
forget, if you want the exact measurements for this cake and for the
frosting that we'll be using, you can find it on my blog, I Heart Recipes.com.
When I used my mixer - my handheld mixer - I did have it on a low speed. And I don't
want to over-mix my batter, so I did change out the mixer for a spatula. So
just now, I added my white distilled vinegar and now I'm going to start
adding a full ounce of red food coloring. So now I'm just going to fold the
coloring in. And you want to be careful, again, not to over-mix, so just fold the
ingredients until everything is nice and red and there are no streaks. And be sure
to get the edges of the bowl. So once your cake batter is done, we're ready to
start placing them into or pouring it into our bake dish. I'm using a baking
spray. If you don't have a baking spray - which is not the same as nonstick spray -
you will need to grease and flour your cake pans. And I'm using two 9-inch cake
pans. So we're going to start pouring in our cake batter. And you want to pour an
equal amount of cake batter into each cake dish. Once I have my batter in there,
I'm just going to start shaking the cake dishes and tapping them a little bit to
release any air bubbles or air pockets, because they may be in the batter. Then I
just let them sit for about five minutes. So now we're going to bake our cakes. You
need to bake them in the oven on 325 Fahrenheit for about 25 to 30 minutes or
until done. And once they're done, I just remove them from the cake pans and I'm
going to let them cool completely on a cooling rack. So I'm going to be using my
cream cheese frosting that I use all the time on this channel. It's the same
recipe that have shared plenty of times. If you want the exact measurements, you
can visit my blog - again, its I Heart Recipes.com. And I'm just going to start
frosting my cake. So I frost the top of one cake, and now I place the
other cake on top. And I'm just going to get the sides. I'm not really worried
about if my cake is pretty at this point, simply because remember we will be doing -
or decorating the cake with rose swirls. For my rose swirls, I'm going to be using
a Wilton tip, it's the number 1. And I'm just going to press and swirl. It's
really easy to do. And if you've been watching me for quite some time, you
probably remember that I decorated my vanilla rose swirl cake the same way. However that
cake had buttercream instead of this frosting, and it was a lot easier to work
with buttercream than cream cheese, I will admit that. But that's it! It's
really easy to make. And as you see, I did not use a ton of ingredients for this
cake and it always comes out so moist. As long as you do not over-mix or over-fold
your cake batter, your cake will be the bomb. Thank you so much for watching,
I truly appreciate it. Now that you watched how I made my red velvet cake, let's head
over to At Home with Nicky so we can see exactly how she made these delicious,
amazing looking waffles! And while we're at her channel, please be sure to
subscribe to her as well and check out many more of her videos.