red velvet rose cake with raspberry sauce, served with ice-cream
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What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet;
Romeo and Juliet William Shakespeare
I didn't have the rose bundt pan needed for today's Red Velvet Rose cake from 'The Baking Bible' bake, but I baked in anyway in the heritage bundt pan.
There is a few different options for this cake colour/flavour wise, at Christmas I used beetroot juice to colour and the extra cocoa option. Colour wise the resulting cake was a non descript "brownish hue". Today I went with less cocoa and red food colour.
Ok, I can see the appeal of red velvet for valentines, weddings or even Halloween but really "I don't get it"...it's not on my list of favorite cake varieties.
Today's bake started with mixing egg whites, red food colouring and vanilla to combined.
yep nice and red
Butter, oil and sugar were beaten to fluffy. I liked this in the recipe, the taste of butter combined with moistness oil adds to cakes. A flour mixture including a small amount of cocoa was mixed in, then the red whites were added.
tiny amount of cocoa powder
resulting red batter once all the ingredients were combined
Whilst the cake was baking I was defrosting frozen raspberries to gather to juice to make a reduction.
The reduced juice was added to raspberry pulp, sweetened and sieved to make a brushing sauce.
This sauce has a threefold action of moistening, adding a lot of fresh flavour plus adding more colour. The sauce seeps into the cake after a short rest period.
Cake after it has been entirely brushed with sauce.
I served the cake with ice-cream wedges spinkled with freeze dried raspberries and grated chocolate. I made an extra thick raspberry sauce using the leftover sauce as a base.
The cake has a great light texture, I loved the raspberry sauce. The red colour I found a little "frightening.
Yes, there has been a lack of other blog posts... oh my goodness if there is a winter bug in the air apparently I'm going to catch it!! Thanks Jacinta for the homemade soup, medicine, gift and the rest :) I'm sure that will make me feel better.
Happy Baking :)
Would I make again? No, unless family/friend requested which is possible, it's not my kind of cake but I have a family member who loves it.
Would I change anything? Hmmm, don't know really red velvet by it's very nature of intense colour is difficult to flavour.
How it works... now I've joined the fabulous existing alpha bakers, once a week I will post about what I have baked from Rose Levy Beranbaum's 'The Baking Bible'. This won't include the recipe due to copyright and publisher restrictions however, I will be posting how it went and photos of making/baking the gorgeous baked goods.
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