Mini Purple Velvet Cake Recipe

Utilizing a small 6 inch cake pan, we are able to make the cutest issues! This mini crimson velvet cake is the proper factor for a Valentine’s Day dessert for 2. Save a number of roses from the bouquet and garnish the cake with them to make this cake stunning.

This mini crimson velvet cake recipe for 2 has been on my To Do checklist for some time. Ever since my Mother found that you would be able to double most of my small batch cupcakes recipes and bake them in a 6″ cake pan for a single layer cake, I have been that means to make this!

My Mother is an effective indicator of which recipes we must always make for the positioning. Did you see her visitor publish of Lobster Mac and Cheese for Two? Do not miss that one!

Mini Purple Velvet Cake recipe within the 6 inch cake pan, you could have been ready so patiently to your second! Properly, it is your day–the day earlier than Valentine’s Day when everybody grabs the crimson meals coloring and bakes a cake! Use any leftover meals coloring to make these crimson velvet sugar cookies, okay?

The best way to Make Mini Purple Velvet Cake

Technically, this recipe is a quadruple batch of my crimson velvet cupcakes, baked in two 6″ cake pans. It makes one small 6″ two-layer spherical cake that’s good for 2 folks, or good as a marriage cake topper.

Truly, first, we doubled the cupcake recipe to get sufficient cake for my crimson velvet truffles. After one chunk, we knew it was time to quadruple it, stack it with cream cheese frosting and revel in.

The Substances

• Oil. Any impartial oil works for this–I usually use canola oil, sunflower oil, vegetable oil, and even avocado oil. Don’t use olive oil or shortening.
• Sugar. Plain white granulated sugar.
• Buttermilk. We actually have to actual buttermilk frosting from the shop for this recipe. Generally, when solely a small quantity of buttermilk is required, we are able to use milk with a splash of vinegar, however I actually do not suggest that for this mini crimson velvet cake. Search for low-fat buttermilk bought on the grocery retailer.
• Egg Whites. We solely want 4 egg whites, no egg yolks. This retains it tremendous tender and light-weight, and plus, the egg yolk may intrude with the crimson colour!
• Purple Meals Coloring. Should you use plain crimson meals coloring, use 4 teaspoons. Should you’re utilizing crimson gel meals coloring, cut back to 1 teaspoon.
• Vanilla Extract. Completely essential to the flavoring right here, use 1 teaspoon of actual, pure vanilla extract.
• White Vinegar. All crimson velvet cake recipes have a little bit of vinegar to assist them rise and turn into tremendous fluffy. No, you will not style ½ teaspoon in a mini layer cake.
• All-Goal Flour. We’d like 1 ⅓ cup, plus ¼ cup of flour. This feels like an odd quantity, however keep in mind we’re quadrupling one other related recipe.
• Cocoa Powder. We’d like 8 teaspoons of cocoa powder, which is the same as 2 tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons. There are 3 teaspoons in a single tablespoon.
• Baking Soda. One-half teaspoon of baking soda reacts with the vinegar to make the cake rise within the oven.
• Salt.

For the cream cheese frosting:

• Cream Cheese. This cake is minimally frosted (see the photographs) for a particular ‘wedding ceremony cake look’, so it solely requires one 8-ounce block of cream cheese. Soften at room temperature for 30-60 minutes earlier than utilizing.
• Butter. One stick of butter (4 ounces), additionally softened at room temperature earlier than utilizing.
• Powdered Sugar. Sure, 4 cups of powdered sugar, additionally known as confectioner’s sugar (or 10x sugar).
• Heavy Cream. A small splash of heavy cream makes cream cheese frosting so fluffy and simple to unfold. We all know this due to our scrumptious whipped cream cream cheese frosting recipe.

The Directions

1. Put together the cake pans by lining the underside with a spherical piece of parchment paper and flippantly oil the edges of the pans.
2. First, make the truffles: utilizing an electrical mixer, beat collectively the oil, sugar, buttermilk, egg white, crimson meals coloring, vanilla, and vinegar.
3. In a separate bowl, whisk collectively the flour, baking soda, salt and cocoa powder.
4. Slowly add the dry components to the moist components, whereas mixing on low velocity.
5. Divide the batter between the 2 cake pans, and bake for 25-35 minutes, till a cake tester comes out clear. Let the cake cool fully within the pan, after which tip out onto a wire rack.
6. Subsequent, make the frosting: Guarantee all the pieces is room temperature (besides the heavy cream). Beat the cream cheese and butter for about 45 seconds to interrupt it up. Start including the powdered sugar one cup at a time whereas beating. Add the vanilla extract and heavy cream, and beat once more. Add additional heavy cream if wanted to type a fluffy, spreadable frosting. Stack the cake layers and frost the cake.

Tools for Mini Purple Velvet Cake

I am utilizing two small 6″ spherical cake pans with 2″ sides. I do not suggest the taller cake pans with 3 inch sides, as a result of they will tend to trigger the cake to sink. On that word, anytime you take away a cake from the oven earlier than it finishes baking fully, it’s going to sink. All the time take a look at your truffles with a toothpick, and have a look at the edges of the pan to see if the cake is pulling away from it.

For adorning this cake, there are such a lot of instructions you may go. I just like the look of a ‘bare cake,’ which is when a minimal quantity of frosting is positioned on the skin of the cake after which swiped off. On this case, I be sure to pack fairly  a little bit of frosting between the cake layers to make up for the lesser quantity of frosting on the edges of the cake. See how, in my photograph, you may see the sides of the crimson velvet cake recipe peeking by way of? I really like this!

Nevertheless, this cream cheese frosting recipe makes sufficient to frost the cake within the conventional approach, if you want. 

I like adorning the cake with contemporary crimson roses (be sure they’re unsprayed), however sprinkles or strawberries can be so festive, too!

If you slice into this cake, it reveals the prettiest layers!

Remaining Suggestions:

Only a word concerning the measurements within the cake: you will see some unusual stuff, like 1 ⅓ cups plus ¼ cup. I would like you so as to add 1 ⅓ cups of flour to a bowl, after which add one other ¼ cup. I quadrupled my small batch cupcake recipe to make this cake, and a few of the numbers got here out this fashion. It makes for an ideal cake, although, so have endurance and bake with precision.

I hope you guys have an important Valentine’s Day! Please let me know when you’ve got any questions, and I’d love see a photograph in the event you make this cake. Take pleasure in!