Mini Pink Velvet Cake Recipe

Utilizing a small 6 inch cake pan, we will make the cutest issues! This mini crimson velvet cake is the proper factor for a Valentine’s Day dessert for 2. Save a couple 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 record for some time. Ever since my Mother found which you could double most of my small batch cupcakes recipes and bake them in a 6″ cake pan for a single layer cake, I have been which means to make this!

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

Mini Pink Velvet Cake recipe within the 6 inch cake pan, you might have been ready so patiently in 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?

Make Mini Pink 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 excellent for 2 folks, or excellent as a marriage cake topper.

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

The Elements

• Oil. Any impartial oil works for this–I sometimes 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 must actual buttermilk frosting from the shop for this recipe. Typically, when solely a small quantity of buttermilk is required, we will 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 lightweight, and plus, the egg yolk would possibly intervene with the crimson colour!
• Pink Meals Coloring. When you use plain crimson meals coloring, use 4 teaspoons. When 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 out to be tremendous fluffy. No, you will not style ½ teaspoon in a mini layer cake.
• All-Objective Flour. We want 1 ⅓ cup, plus ¼ cup of flour. This feels like an odd quantity, however bear in mind we’re quadrupling one other comparable recipe.
• Cocoa Powder. We want 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 pictures) for a particular ‘marriage 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 perimeters of the pans.
2. First, make the desserts: 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 elements to the moist elements, 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 every part 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 kind a fluffy, spreadable frosting. Stack the cake layers and frost the cake.

Gear for Mini Pink 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 be aware, anytime you take away a cake from the oven earlier than it finishes baking fully, it’s going to sink. At all times take a look at your desserts with a toothpick, and take a look at the perimeters 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 make sure that to pack fairly  a little bit of frosting between the cake layers to make up for the lesser quantity of frosting on the perimeters of the cake. See how, in my picture, you may see the perimeters of the crimson velvet cake recipe peeking via? I like this!

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

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

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

Closing Suggestions:

Only a be aware in regards to 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 among the numbers got here out this manner. It makes for an ideal cake, although, so have persistence and bake with precision.

I hope you guys have a terrific Valentine’s Day! Please let me know you probably have any questions, and I might love see a photograph in case you make this cake. Take pleasure in!