How to: Red Velvet Cake

Being a person that's utterly obsessed with anything red velvet, may it be cupcakes or cakes, I decided to try and look for the best Red Velvet Cake recipe that I've tried. So far, this is the best that I've tried and it's from Bakerella.com.

I'm starting a new blog segment that's basically a post about tutorials, demos, and how to's that's related to travel and food. Let's get started with the recipe.

What you will need...

2 1/2 cups all purpose flour

2 cups sugar

1 Tablespoon cocoa

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon baking soda

2 eggs

1 1/2 cups oil

1 cup buttermilk

1 Tablespoon vinegar

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 oz. red food coloring

Steps...

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Grease and flour two 8 inch cake pans.
• Lightly stir eggs in a medium bowl with a wire whisk. Add remaining liquid ingredients and stir together with whisk until blended. Set aside.
• Place all the dry ingredients in your mixing bowl and stir together really good with another wire whisk.
• Add wet ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix on medium-high for about a minute or until completely combined.
• Pour into cake pans and then drop the pans on the counter a few times to release any air bubbles.
• Bake for about 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
• After about ten minutes, remove from pans and cool completely on a wire rack. I also cover in plastic wrap while the cakes cool.
• Then make the frosting.

To make the Cream Cheese Frosting

8 oz. cream cheese, room temperature
1 cup butter, room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla
6 cups confectioners’ sugar

• Sift sugar and set aside. 
• Beat cream cheese and butter on high until creamy. Add vanilla. 
• Then, add the sugar in batches. Scrape down the sides in between each addition. 
• And frost away.

Enjoy your heart out!

Banapple with Ana Banana

P.S. I don't really call her that. Haha! Just thought it rhymes.

So anyway, yesterday (Oct. 26) was a no school day for me so a friend of mine decided that we should go out. We were supposed to go to Fitness First in Eastwood but then they we're going to close early due to Eid Mubarak. To our disappointment, we just drank teas in their food station and went outside to eat.

We decided to eat at Pizza Hut Bistro. I wasn't able to take photos which leaves me to blog about another restaurant we went to after eating dinner.

We were craving for some cakes and decided to pass by Banapple Katipunan. It was my first time to eat there so I was excited to try out the cakes that everyone has been raving about.

CAKE OVERLOOOOAD!

I decided to order the Supercaramel fudge cake (Php100.00) which I know is sinful but I don't regret ordering this at all!

My friend Ana ordered the Yo Ho Hope! Cheesecake which was DE-LI-CIOUS!!!!

I'll definitely bring the family here next time so they can try out the pasta and rice dishes they're also serving. I'm sure my daughter will enjoy eating here because of the fact that they're selling HUGE cookies which is something she loves!

P.S. Read my latest post in my beauty blog entitled Miss April meets The Fairy Hobmother. Comment on the post itself and who knows, he might visit your blog next and shower you with gifts!

The Bunny Baker visits Cozyland

Of course, to start off my very 1st post in my newest blog, I wanted to share you the fondant cake that Aila of The Bunny Baker created for my daughter when she celebrated her 1st birthday last February 2012.

She absolutely loves the Disney Junior show called Dibo the Gift Dragon so what better cake to get than a Dibo and Friends themed cake, right? Just like what Aila said, "What started out as a simple project ended up as probably our most complex and detailed cake to date! This is also our first Dibo cake where Dibo is actually standing up -- thanks to his smaller size. We ended up putting in more work in this cake than we initially thought, so we're really proud of this one."

Photos from The Bunny Baker's studio. More photos can be found from The Bunny Baker's album of Dibo in Cozyland for Sofia.

we blew her cake at home since she fell asleep when it was time to blow her cake...