Red Velvet Cake with Red Roses & Happy New Year !!

Wishing all a Very Happy n Prosperous New Year.Hope this year brings out all happiness,joy and your dreams come true !!Let's see what's new this year with recipes too.Red Velvet Cake is one cake which I wished to try since long and thought new year will be the perfect time to bake and start off with .Hope everyone would equally love it too :-))

Ingredients
all purpose flour - 2 cups
Dutch processed cocoa -2 tbsp
granulated sugar 1 1/2 cups
unsalted butter 1/2 cup
buttermilk 1 cup
red food colour 2tbsp
vanilla extract 1tsp
eggs 2
baking soda 1 tsp

Cream cheese Frosting-
Cream cheese 8 Oz
Vanilla extract 1 tsp
powdered sugar 1 cup
heavy whipping cream 1 1/2 cups
Red icing 1/2 of a bottle
Sprinklers 2 tsp

Method-
-Sift the flour ,salt,cocoa powder and baking soda.
-In a blender,Beat the butter until soft .Add in the sugar and beat until fluffy for 2 minutes.Add the eggs one at a time and beat well.Add in the vanilla extract and mix well.
-Add the food colour to the buttermilk and mix well.Alternate the flour to the wet ingredients and mix smoothly.
-Pre heat oven to 350 degrees C and pour the batter into the prepared pan ,place the pan in the oven.
-Bake for 35 minutes and cool on wire rack till 10 minutes.
-Invert the cake and lift the pan.Wrap the cake in plastic wrap and Cool in refrigerator for 1hour.
-Cut the cake in three equal layers and place on a parchment paper.
-In the mean time,prepare the cream cheese frosting.Beat the cream cheese at room temperature until smooth and add the powdered sugar to it.Add the vanilla essence.Add the whipping cream to it and make it thick enough to spread.
-Place the first smoothly cut layer on the plate or cake stand and then spread the layer of frosting.
-Similarly do the other layers stacking till you reach the top with other layers.Spread with a offset spatula and smoothen the top.
-Make red roses using the bottled icing and add sprinklers OR garnish as per your creativity.

Servings 8*8 loaf cake

NOTES-
*Be careful while you add the red colour seeing not to stain the table and other surfaces.
*While applying frosting,take forward strokes and preferably don't take the back strokes.

Sending this to Valentines Day Special event hosted by Teenz @ Teenz Yummy Delights