Red Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese Icing is a two-layer, soft and fluffy red velvet cake with the perfect cream cheese icing to compliment the unique flavour of the cake.
Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F) and grease and line a 24cm or 9" round spring form cake pan and set aside.
In a large bowl and with a stand or hand mixer, cream the butter, sugar and brown sugar together until creamy.
Add in the oil, eggs, vanilla extract and red food colouring and beat together.
In a separate bowl, mix the flour, cocoa and baking soda together.
Fold the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients and mix until all combined.
Finally add in the buttermilk and vinegar and stir until smooth.
Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake for 45-50 minutes. A skewer inserted into the middle should come out with a couple of moist crumbs attached.
Allow the cake to cool for 10 minutes in the cake pan before removing from the pan and place on a cooling rack to cool completely while you make the cream cheese icing.
Cream Cheese Icing;
Beat the butter until smooth.
Add in the cream cheese and beat together until smooth.
Add in the vanilla extract and slowly add the icing sugar until all combined.
If your cake has domed take a sharp, serrated knife and level the cake. Then using the serrated knife, cut the cake in half.
Using ⅓-1/2 of the icing, fill the cake, you can pipe this or spread this. Then top the cake with the remaining icing. You can cover the sides, pipe like I have or however you like.
Notes
You can bake this cake in two 8" cake pans. Reduce the baking time to 30-40 minutes if you do so.
You can bake the cake one day and ice the next. Plastic wrap the cake and place in the fridge until you are ready to ice the cake if you do this.
The cake can be frozen for 2-3 months.
Store in an airtight container at room temperature for 1-2 days or in the fridge for up to 7 days. Beware the fridge can dry out the cake.