A Touch of Red Velvet Made More Tempting

I'm excited to share this delicious red velvet cake recipe. There’s something classical and elegant about the shape of a bundt cake that has transcended generations. The fact that this is a red velvet cake is a delicious twist. Even though it’s just food coloring, there’s something special about that rich red velvet color. Without further ado, here is the red velvet bundt cake recipe that will make you a kitchen all-star!

 

 Ingredients:

 - 1 tbsp of cocoa powder

- 3/4 tbsp of salt

- 1 tbsp of baking soda

- 1 1/4 cups of sugar

- 2 1/2 cups of flour

- 1 tsp of vanilla

- 1 tsp of apple cider vinegar

- 1 tbsp of red food coloring

- 2 whole eggs

- 1 cup of buttermilk

- 1 1/4 cups of vegetable oil

 

Preparation:

 1) Preheat your oven to 350F.

2) You don’t have to use a bundt pan, but if you have one, grab it and grease it then apply some flour on top (do this with whichever pan you use for this cake recipe).

3) In a medium-sized bowl, combine the eggs, food coloring, buttermilk, vanilla and vinegar and mix them together well.

4) In another bowl, mix the dry ingredients together, and then combine both bowls. This ensures everything is properly blended.

5) Pour this batter into your bundt cake pan and bake for 45 minutes.

 

Now that you’ve completed this cake recipe, you may want to find a delicious icing recipe to go on top; but this cake is great without icing, as well.

Tempting Cake Made with Carrots

Choosing 1st birthday cake recipes can be a tough decision. When it comes to celebrating your little one's big day, you want the cake to be special, memorable and delicious. If you don't want to feed your baby an unhealthy candy cake, then you will want to avoid most chocolate cake recipes. I've worked on many carrot cake recipe that would be excellent choices for babies to enjoy due to healthy ingredients and very low amounts of sugar. Here's one of my favorite 1st birthday healthy carrot carrot recipe—it's very easy to prepare and it's also quite tasty despite the use of healthy ingredients.

 

Here's what you'll need to get started:

• 2 1/2 cups of thinly sliced carrots
• 2 1/2 cups of apple juice concentrate
• 1 cup of raisins
• 2 cups of flour (whole wheat is best)
• 1/2 cup of vegetable oil
• 2 whole eggs
• 4 egg whites (remove the yolks yourself or purchase a container of egg whites)
• 1 tablespoon of vanilla extract
• 3/4 cup of applesauce (unsweetened is best)
• 1/2 cup of wheat germ
• 2 tbsp of baking powder (low sodium is best)
• 1 tbsp of ground cinnamon

 

Preparation instructions:

1.    Line a large baking pan with wax paper and coat the wax paper with vegetable oil. It's easiest to grease lightly if you're using a spray can.

2.    Pour half of the juice concentrate into a saucepan. Add the carrots and bring to a boil, then let simmer for 15 minutes or until the carrots are tender. Let cool, then add the raisins and puree this mixture. It's easiest if you have access to a blender or a food processor.

3.    Combine all the dry ingredients in a large mixing bowl and mix thoroughly.

4.    Add the remaining ingredients to the mixing bowl and mix until they're all combined. At this point, fold in the puree you have prepared and continue to mix well.

5.    Pour this mixture into the baking pan and bake in the oven for 35 minutes at 350°F. Make sure your oven is preheated.

Delicious and Healthy Cake for a Vegan Diet

A vegan diet means not eating any dairy or animal products i.e. no meat, poultry, eggs, butter or cheese etc. However, it does not mean that it has to be a complicated diet. There are a number of delicious dishes that you can prepare using vegan ingredients. Here is a simple, easy and healthyvegan carrot cake recipe with vegan cream cheese frosting that you can prepare at home for dessert or as an evening snack.

On your shopping list for your carrot cake recipe:

•  400 grams of grated red carrots

•  250 grams of white sugar

•  250 grams of white flour

•  10 grams of baking powder

•  2.5 grams of baking soda

•  A pinch of salt

•  7 grams of ground cinnamon

•  Fresh juice of 2 small oranges

•  112 ml of canola oil

•  165 grams of chopped raisins

•  180 grams of chopped walnuts

Preparation:

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•  Do not use an electric or hand blender to prepare this recipe. Use only a wooden spoon or ladle.

•  Preheat the oven to 350F.

•  In a deep bowl, mix the sugar, flour, baking powder and baking soda.

•  Add the orange juice and cinnamon powder to the mix and fold the mix well.

•  Now add the oil and mix some more.

•  Fold in the grated carrots and the salt, and mix well so that there are no lumps of carrot in the mix.

•  Now add the chopped raisins and chopped walnuts and fold the mix.

•  Grease a baking pan using cooking spray or canola oil.

•  Pour the batter in the prepared pan.

•  Bake the cake in the preheated oven for about 45 minutes until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.

•  Cool on a wire rack before frosting the cake.

On your shopping list for the vegan cream cheese frosting:

•  150 grams of soy cream cheese

•  50 grams of vegan margarine

•  230 grams of powdered sugar

•  10 ml of vanilla essence

Preparation:

•  Beat the soy cream cheese and margarine in a bowl until you get a soft, creamy texture.

•  Add the sugar and vanilla essence and beat some more until the mix is of spreading consistency.

•  Scoop the mix in a piping bag and put it in the fridge for some time before using.

For assembling the cake:

•  Cut the cake in little squares, drizzle the frosting on the pieces in an abstract manner, and cool in the fridge to set the frosting before serving.

•  You can also spread the frosting all over the cake and then cut in slices to serve.

Simple and Great Cake Made to Chase the Blues Away

Chocolate cake recipe are known as a great comfort food all over the world. There is nothing like coming home to the smell of a warm homemade chocolate cake fresh out of the oven to make you forget all your tiredness and the worries of your day. Here are two simple and great tastinghomemade chocolate cake recipes that you can prepare in no time.

1. Homemade coffee chocolate cake

What you will need:

•  Flour - 2 cups

•  Refined white sugar – 1 1/2 cups

•  Mayonnaise - 1 cup

•  Cocoa powder – 1/2 cup

•  Baking powder – 1 teaspoon

•  Baking soda – 1 teaspoon

•  Brewed cold coffee – 1 cup

•  Vanilla essence – 1 teaspoon

Procedure:

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•  Preheat the oven to 350F.

•  In a deep bowl, take the mayonnaise and sugar and whip them using an electric blender.

•  Add the brewed coffee and mix some more until you get a frothy mix.

•  Add the vanilla essence.

•  In a separate bowl, mix the flour, cocoa powder, baking powder and baking soda. Mix well.

•  Add the dry ingredients to the coffee-mayo mix and blend well so that there are no lumps left  and  the mix is of dropping consistency.

•  Pour the batter in a greased baking pan (fill the pan only 3/4 full as the cake will rise).

•  Bake in the preheated oven for about 30-35 minutes.

•  Cool for some time before cutting in slices to serve.

2. Simple chocolate cake 

What you will need:

•  Shortening - 3/4 cup

•  Sugar - 1 1/2 cups

•  Eggs - 2

•  Milk - 1/2 cup

•  Cocoa powder – 1/2 cup

•  Baking soda – 1 teaspoon

•  Baking powder - 1 teaspoon

•  Refined flour – 2 cups

•  Vanilla essence – 2 teaspoons

•  Boiling water – 1 cup

Procedure:

•  In a deep bowl, break the eggs and add the shortening and sugar. Use an electric blender to    whip them together until the eggs are fluffy and the sugar is mixed.

•  Add the milk and vanilla essence to the mix and whip.

•  Mix the dry ingredients (flour, cocoa powder, baking soda and baking powder) in a dry bowl.

•  Add the dry ingredients to the wet batter using one teaspoon at a time, and beat well in between.

•  Make sure there are no lumps in the mix.

•  Add the boiling hot water to the mix last, and fold the mix lightly.

•  Pour the batter in a greased cake pan.

•  Bake in a preheated oven at 350F for about 30-35 minutes.

•  Take the cake out of oven and cool on a wire rack befo

Simple Yet Tasty Cake Recipe

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Here is a tasty homemade carrot cake recipe that doesn’t take too much time; and it does not take a lot of effort either! These are two criteria that are important in a great cake recipe, if you ask me. Before getting started with this homemade carrot cake recipe, take a look to make sure you have all of the ingredients. Most of the ingredients are common items, so you shouldn’t have a very big shopping list if you are missing anything.

 

Necessary ingredients:

 

•   2 cups of grated carrots

•   1 cup of granulated sugar

•   1 cup of vegetable oil

•   1/2 teaspoon of vanilla

•   1 1/3 cups of all-purpose flour

•   1 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder

•   1 1/2 teaspoons of baking soda

•   1/2 teaspoon of salt

•   1 1/2 teaspoons of cinnamon

•   3 eggs

 

Simple preparation instructions:

 

1.    First of all, you’ll need an oven preheated to 350°F.

2.    In a mixing bowl, combine the sugar and vegetable oil before beating in the eggs, one at a time. Add vanilla.

3.    In a separate bowl, mix together the dry ingredients. Now, mix in each of the wet ingredients and finally add the carrots.

4.    Now it is time to pour the cake batter into a greased baking pan.

5.    You will need to bake the cake for roughly 35 minutes.

6.    Allow this cake recipe to cool for a few moments before cutting off a huge slice—and enjoy!

 

That’s all you need to do to enjoy this fantastic cake recipe. So who said homemade carrot cake recipes need to be difficult?

Luscious Chocolate Cake made at Home

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There's something to be said about taking matters into your own hands and doing things yourself. Take this homemade chocolate cake recipes for instance. It's incredibly simple to create a delicious  cake recipe at home, so why are so many people buying boxes of cake mix? Baking a cake from scratch can seem like a daunting, complicated task, but I assure you it isn't. This recipe takes about 15 minutes to prepare, and then another 35 to bake. That's it! A delicious, homemade chocolate cake recipe that takes less than an hour, using things you probably already have in your pantry; does it get any better than that?

 Here's what you'll need:

• 1/2 cup of butter (you can substitute for margarine)
• 2 cups of fine sugar
• 3 medium-sized eggs
• 1 1/2 teaspoons of vanilla
• 3 squares of baker's chocolate (unsweetened chocolate squares, melted)
• 2 cups of flour
• 2 teaspoons of baking soda
• 1/2 teaspoon of salt
• 1 cup of sour cream
• 1 cup of boiling water

 Here's how to put it all together:

1. Preheat your oven to 350°F.
2. Use a beater (or a fork, if you don't have one) to mix the butter with the sugar in a large mixing bowl.
3. Add the vanilla and melted chocolate squares to the mix.
4. Add the remaining dry ingredients, using a sifter.
5. Add the sour cream and continue to beat all of the ingredients together.
6. Pour this mixture into a greased baking pan and bake in the preheated oven for 35 minutes.

That wasn't so hard, was it? Now it's time to enjoy this fantastic homemade chocolate cake recipe—you earned it!

Banana Split Recipe with Chocolate Frosting

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A banana cake recipe makes an interesting dessert for both the young and the old; and when you combine it with gooey chocolate frosting it adds to the taste and gives you two-fold joy! Here is a simple banana split cake recipe that you can prepare at home and enjoy with your family and friends.

Ingredients:

• Unsalted butter – 1 kg

• Sugar – 3 cups

• Confectioner’s sugar – 2 cups

• Eggs – 4 (large)

• Cake flour – 2 ½ cups

• Baking soda – 1 teaspoon

• Baking powder – ¾ teaspoon

• Salt – ½ teaspoon (if you are using salted butter then skip the salt)

• Mashed banana – 1 ½ cups

• Sour cream – ½ cup

• Vanilla extract – 4 ½ teaspoons

• Egg whites of 5 eggs

• Yellow food coloring – 5-8 drops (depending on how yellow you want the cake to be)

• Semi-sweet chocolate chips

• Caramel sauce – ½ cup

• Sprinkles – 1 cup

 Method:

• Preheat the oven to 350°F.

• Take a deep bowl and put 230 grams of butter and 1 ½ cups of sugar in it.

• Using a blender, beat the butter and sugar at medium speed until light and fluffy. This will take about 2-3 minutes.

• Break in the eggs, one by one, and mix until well combined.

• Mix the flour, baking soda, baking powder, salt and 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract in a separate bowl. Mix well.

• Add the dry ingredients to the egg mix, spoon by spoon, and keep beating on a medium speed.

• Once all the ingredients are mixed well, add 1 cup of mashed bananas and sour cream. Beat for another 3 minutes and your cake batter will be ready to bake.

• Grease a 9-inch pan and pour the batter in the pan.

• Bake in the preheated oven for 35-40 minutes.

• In the meantime, on a double boiler, combine the egg whites and sugar and whisk them until well mixed.

• Take off the boiler and whisk some more until the mixture doubles in volume.

• Add 4 sticks of butter to the mix and whisk some more until even and smooth.

• Add ½ teaspoon of vanilla extract and ½ cup of mashed bananas and whisk until everything mixes and is of spreading consistency.

• Add 2-3 drops of food coloring to get the ‘banana’ color.

• In a separate bowl, combine chocolate chips, caramel sauce and the rest of the butter. Cook on low heat until the chocolate chips are melted and combined.

• Add the vanilla extract and confectioner’s sugar to the mix and combine well.

• Let it cool to room temperature.

• Once the cake is done, cool it on a wire rack before applying the frosting.

• Slit the cake in three layers horizontally.

• Place the bottom layer on the cake stand and spread the banana frosting on it. Sprinkle some sprinkles on the frosting.

• Place the second layer on top of the frosting and press lightly.

• On the second layer, spread the chocolate frosting and sprinkle some more sprinkles.

• Place the final layer on top of the chocolate frosting and cover all the sides of the cake with the rest of the banana frosting.

• Cover with sprinkles and put the cake in the fridge to cool for some time before serving.

• To serve, cut in slices and drizzle with chocolate sauce.