Hi there,
Are you a sweet tooth? Do you like dessert? What is your favourite cakes/cupcakes? For me, I definitely have a weak spot for dessert and red velvet cake/cupcake is definitely one of my favourites. I always bake cupcakes but I want to try something different and I have quite a few jars in my cupboard, so I thought: what about cakes in a jar??? Sounds interesting, I definitely have seen this before so I went on Pinterest and of course there are plenty of pictures. So I gave it a try!!
I used the Red Velvet cake recipe I got from Laura Vitale website, I personally think she has some good recipes. I did alter the recipes a little bit though because I prefers cakes that is not too sweet, and I used my own recipe for the cream cheese frosting because I prefer frosting that are not fill with icing sugar, I find them too sweet.
Batter:
320g of Plain flour
32g of Cocoa powder
225g of Granulated Sugar ( I prefer my batter less sweet)
100g of Butter at room-temperature
100ml of Vegetable oil
225 ml of Buttermilk*
2 tsp of Baking Powder
1 tsp of Baking Soda
1/2 tsp of Salt
2 tsp of White Distilled Vinegar
2 tsp of Vanilla Extract
Red food colouring
*If you don’t have Buttermilk, you can create your own: using 225ml of milk + 1 lemon.
Method
Preheat oven to 180oC
- Sift flour + cocoa powder + baking powder + baking soda + salt together, and put this dry mixture aside.
- Put sugar + butter in a mixing bowl and whisk them up until creamy then add in vegetable oil, blend well together.
- Add in eggs + vanilla in the mixtures
- In a separate bowl or jug, mix buttermilk + vinegar + red food colouring together, make sure to add enough red colouring to get the deep red colour.
- Add half of the dry mixture + half of buttermilk into the mixing bowl till slightly blend well, then mix the rest in; blend until the batter is smooth.
- Pour the batter into the rectangle baking pan, and pop it into the oven for about 22- 25 minutes or until cooked through (you can test by inserting a toothpick or fork into the middle of the cake, if they come out clean, means your cake is all done!)
Frosting:
300ml of Whip cream
8 tbsp of Icing Sugar
250g of Cream cheese at room-temperature
Method
- Put whip cream in mixing bowl and whisk well until slightly thicken, add in icing sugar and whisk again until completely thick (like how your whip cream with normally look like when it’s ready made)
- Add in cream cheese, blend until getting a smooth mixture.
- Put mixture into a piping bag.
In a jar
- Using a round 2.5cm thick cookies cutter to cut into the desire shape.
- Place cut cake into jars.
- Cut off a tip of piping bag, and pipe frosting over cake ( remember that it doesn’t have to have any shape, just let it pour over the cake)
- You can choose to add another layer of cake, and pipe frosting over the second layer.
I love that Red Velvet always have a little crumbs over the frosting, you can simply crumble the leftover cake to get some Red Velvet crumbs to sprinkle over the frosting.
Hope you enjoy this recipe!
