It’s onerous to think about a Valentine’s Day with out Pink Velvet Cake!
And I like making particular person purple velvet cake to provide away as presents
Good little truffles to provide as presents to those you like!
I even used my Russian Piping Suggestions to embellish them with a basket weave design!
This cake is so moist with the normal cream cheese filling and icing
Besides this new recipe for no cream cheese~ no fridge cream cheese icing goes to alter your life!
After all you can also make this whole recipe into any dimension pans you favor
This recipe under will make 2-8″ cake layers as an alternative of the sheet pan I’m utilizing
However if you wish to spend somewhat bit extra time on this mission to make these cute little particular person truffles like I did
You’d merely bake all of the batter right into a half sheet pan after which lower out every coronary heart formed layer! *video tutorial hyperlink right here
Completely value the additional effort whenever you give these mini truffles as presents to the particular individuals in your life!
If you’re making my particular person coronary heart truffles you have to a coronary heart formed cookie cutter to make the lower outs
The one drawback with doing it that manner is the surplus cake scraps left over when slicing shapes from a sheet cake
However I by no means fret over extra cake scraps since I’ll all the time use it for one thing else later
Like these cute coronary heart formed cake pops for instance!
Or these luscious Pink Velvet Cake Balls dipped in white chocolate!
I’ve additionally developed a No Cream Cheese ~ Cream Cheese Icing recipe that’s room temperature steady
Bonus: It doesn’t require utilizing vegan cream cheese which might be tough to search out these days
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Notes for Success:
I’m utilizing my No Shortening Buttercream Icing recipe modified for Cream Cheese icing that doesn’t require vegan cream cheese!
Make sure you learn the whole weblog put up for that recipe and use the modified “no fridge” cream cheese icing model for the most effective cream cheese icing ever!
Within the video for this recipe I used to be utilizing beet juice for added shade however I discover this to be an annoying, pointless ingredient so I’ve changed it with extra water
Cocoa powder is an important ingredient to know when making Pink Velvet Cake
Many individuals suppose Dutch course of is the most effective to make use of and ought to be utilized in all recipes asking for cocoa powder
This isn’t true, and particularly not true of purple velvet truffles
Yield: Serves 8 individuals
Pink Velvet Cake
Prep Time
2 hours
Prepare dinner Time
Half-hour
Whole Time
2 hours Half-hour
Components
- All Goal Flour 2½ Cups (312g)
- Granulated Sugar 1½ cups (300g)
- Baking Soda 1 teaspoon (5g)
- Salt ½ teaspoon (3g)
- Pure Cocoa Powder 2 Tablespoons (12g)
- Vegetable Oil ½ cup (120ml)
- Plant Milk 1 Cup (237ml) * I like to make use of soy milk
- Floor Flax Seeds 2 Tablespoons (16g)
- Scorching Water 6 Tablespoons (90ml)
- Pink Meals Shade 1 teaspoon
- White Vinegar 1 teaspoon
- Vanilla Extract 1 teaspoon (5ml)
- 1 Recipe 2-2-2 Cream Cheese Icing
Directions
- For the Pink Velvet Cake:
- Preheat the oven to 350°F
- Grease & parchment line your cake pan(s)
- First mix the flax meal with the new water and whisk easy, let it stand for five minutes to thicken
- Mix the vinegar with the plant milk to bitter
- In a big mixing bowl mix the sugar with the oil, & vanilla extract and whisk easy
- Add the flax paste and the soured milk and whisk easy
- Sift all of the dry elements into the sugar/oil combination and whisk easy once more
- Add optionally available purple meals shade to spike it up then pour right into a greased and parchment lined 12″ X 18″ pan and bake in a preheated 350°F oven for roughly 25-Half-hour or till it’s springy to the contact whenever you gently press the middle
- If utilizing 8″ pans divide the batter evenly between each greased & parchment lined pans and bake for roughly 25 minutes, verify with a toothpick to verify it’s carried out.
- Cool the cake within the pan after which lower out the center shapes with a 4″ coronary heart cookie cutter, save the scraps for an additional mission like Cake Pops or Pink Velvet Truffles *hyperlinks above in textual content
- In the meantime put together the two 2 2 cream cheese icing recipe in accordance with the directions on that recipe put up linked above
- Beautify the truffles as you want ~ watch the video tutorial for the best way to make the basket weave and the Russian piping roses decor
Notes
Since there isn’t a vegan cream cheese within the icing, this cake shall be high-quality at room temperature for as much as 4 days.
For longer storage maintain refrigerated for as much as 1 week
