Red Velvet Loaf Cake!

• servings: 10 servings
• active time: 30 minutes
• total time: 4 hours 20 minutes

Ingredients

125 g unsalted butter

300 g caster sugar

3 medium eggs

30 g cocoa powder

1 tsp red food colouring (see notes)

1 tsp vanilla extract

250 ml buttermilk

300 g plain flour

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp bicarbonate of soda

2 tsp white wine vinegar

125 g unsalted butter

125 g icing sugar

250 g full-fat cream cheese (I use philadelphia)

1 tsp vanilla extract

Directions

Red Velvet Loaf Cake

Preheat your oven to 170ºc/150ºc fan and line a 2lb loaf tin with parchment paper

Beat together the unsalted butter and caster sugar in a bowl until smooth and fluffy

Add in the eggs, cocoa powder, red food colouring and vanilla extract and beat again until combined.

Add in the buttermilk and plain flour, and beat again. Try not to over beat the mixture.

Finally – beat in the baking powder, bicarbonate of soda and white wine vinegar.

Spoon the mixture into the loaf tin, and smooth over.

Bake for 50-55 minutes or until the middle of the cake comes out clean when poked with a skewer! Once the cake is baked, leave to cool in the tin for at least 10 minutes, and then on a wire rack.

Cream Cheese Frosting

Make sure your unsalted butter is at room temperature, and make sure to use block butter and not a spread.

Beat your unsalted butter and icing sugar together until light and fluffy - like you would a normal buttercream. I beat them together for about 5 minutes.

Add in your full-fat cream cheese (That has been drained if needed), and beat for about a minute.

Scrape the bowl well, and add in the vanilla. Beat again for another minute.

Scrape the bowl again finally, and beat again if needed. It should be a thick and smooth frosting once finished

To Decorate

Level off the cake ever so slightly so you have some cake to use as crumbs. Crumble it up into crumbs

Using your piping bag and piping tip, pipe your cream cheese frosting onto the cake.

Once piped on, sprinkle over the cake crumbs. Enjoy!

Nutrition

• Calories: 493 kcal
• Total Fat: 21 g
• Saturated Fat: 12 g
• Cholesterol: 106 mg
• Sodium: 255 mg
• Total Carbohydrate: 70 g
• Dietary Fiber: 2 g
• Total Sugars: 44 g
• Protein: 8 g