Printable Recipe: Red Velvet Cake Recipe

Red Velvet Cake: A July 4 Patriotic Cake Recipe

If you're simply looking for a recipe for a red velvet cake, this cake comes out perfect every time. And beautiful!

But it also makes a really fun and patriotic cake recipe for the 4th of July! With its red insides and white frosting, you can decorate it however you want... as a flag cake, with berries and raspberries making a red, white, and blue star... however you like!

After the basic recipe, you'll find a few options for decorating this cake recipe Fourth of July style.

Cake serves about 8.

Ingredients:

Cake:
2 1/2 C. cake flour
2 tbsp. cocoa powder
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt
1 1/2 C. granulated sugar
1/2 C. unsalted butter, at room temperature
2 lg. eggs, at room temperature
1 C. buttermilk
1/4 C. red food coloring (don't skimp!)
1 tsp. white vinegar
1 tsp. vanilla extract

Marshmallow Cream Cheese Frosting:
8 oz. cream cheese, softened
1/2 C. unsalted butter, softened
1 C. Marshmallow Fluff
1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
3 1/2 C. powdered sugar

Instructions: 1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F and generously butter and flour two 9" cake pans.

2. Into a medium mixing bowl, sift together the cake flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, baking powder, and salt.

3. In a separate large bowl, beat the sugar and butter together with an electric mixer on medium high speed until creamy. One at a time, beat in the eggs on medium-high until well incorporated.

4. Beat in a third of your flour mixture, followed by a third of your buttermilk. Repeat two more times until all flour and buttermilk have been incorporated.

5. Beat in the food coloring, vinegar, and vanilla.

6. Divide batter evenly among your two cake pans. Bake until tester comes out clean, about 25 minutes. Cool completely on a wire rack.

7. Meanwhile, make the frosting: In a medium mixing bowl, beat the butter and cream cheese together on medium speed until creamy and well mixed. Beat in marshmallow creme.

8. Add powdered sugar bit by bit, until frosting reaches the desired consistency. Beat in vanilla extract.

9. When cake is completely cool, frost sides, top, and between the layers of your cake.

10. If you like, decorate this cake recipe Fourth of July style, as suggested below!

Note: To decorate as pictured above, separate out a small quantity of your frosting before decorating the cake, and dye it blue with food coloring. Dot onto your cake to create a fun pattern.