Blue Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
Blue Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

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This blue velvet cake has an angel food base with fresh blueberries baked into the cake, and is coated in a delicious and creamy cream cheese frosting. Chocolate Blackout Cake with Strawberry Cream Cheese Frosting. Once the cake layers and the frosting have finished cooling, place the bottom cake layer onto the display surface, (i.e. a cake stand or pretty plate that you will serve it off of), and begin evenly frosting the top of the bottom cake layer.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have blue velvet cake with cream cheese frosting using 14 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Blue Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting:
  1. Prepare ~For the Cake
  2. Prepare 1 box white cake mix (do not use box directions)
  3. Make ready 1 1/4 cups buttermilk
  4. Take 1/3 cup vegetable oil
  5. Get 3 eggs - room temp
  6. Prepare 2 tbs unsweetened baking cocoa
  7. Take 2 tsp royal blue GEL food coloring
  8. Make ready 1 drop violet GEL food coloring
  9. Make ready ~For the Frosting
  10. Take 8 oz cream cheese - softened
  11. Prepare 1/2 cup unsalted butter - softened
  12. Take 3 cups powdered sugar
  13. Prepare 2 tsp pure vanilla extract
  14. Get 1 tiny pinch salt

While I love making challenging cake designs, sometimes it's nice to just make a classic layer cake. Frosted with Cream Cheese frosting!" Watch me make this Easy, Moist Red Velvet Cake from start to finish! There is something so elegant about a red velvet cake. Maybe it's the name or that beautiful, bold red color.

Instructions to make Blue Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting:
  1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour the bottom only of a 9x13"cake pan or grease and flour the bottom and sides of 2, 8" round cake pans.
  2. Place all ingredients for the cake, EXCEPT the food coloring, in the bowl of a stand mixer. Beat on low speed until just combined.
  3. Add food coloring (it is important to use gel type). Beat on medium speed for 2 minutes. Scrape down sides. Pour into prepared baking pan(s). Gently tap pan(s) on counter a couple times to knock out air bubbles.
  4. Place in oven. Bake 29-34 minutes for 9x13"pan or minutes for 8" round pans (toothpick inserted in the center should come out clean).
  5. Remove from oven. For 9x13 let cool completely in pan. For round pans let cool 15 minutes, then run a knife around the edges to release from pan, and turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
  6. To make the frosting:
  7. Place butter, cream cheese and vanilla in the bowl of a stand mixer. Beat on medium speed until combined and beginning to "fluff". About 2 minutes.
  8. Turn off mixer, scrape down sides. Beat in powdered sugar 1 cup at a time, fully combining and scraping down sides after each addition. Add a small pinch of salt with the final cup of sugar. If frosting seems too thick to spread you can beat in a little milk 1 tsp at a time.
  9. To frost 9x13"cake: Spread entire batch evenly over cake. To frost 8" round cake: Place one cake on serving platter. Spread 1/3 of batch on top only. Place second cake directly on top of first. Spread remaining frosting over top and sides to coat as evenly as possible.
  10. See notes below ⤵
  11. If you are using dark or nonstick cake pans bake at 325°F until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean (usually about 5 more minutes than regular time).

Or maybe it's the delicate crumb and lightly chocolatey sweet taste mellow with a tad. Make a blue velvet cake with cream cheese frosting by using the frosting recipe from the Vegan Carrot Cake recipe (see link below). Sometimes cakes don't bake evenly and if that's the case, simply use a long, serrated knife (like a bread knife) and trim the domed top of each cake to create a more. These Velvet cakes are just as good — and maybe even a little more exciting — when it's made with blue colour. Because that's all that velvet cakes are , just buttermillk, a touch of cocoa powder and food coloring.

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