Recipe: Perfect Red Velvet Cake with Homemade Icing

Red Velvet Cake with Homemade Icing.

You can have Red Velvet Cake with Homemade Icing using 12 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Red Velvet Cake with Homemade Icing

1. Prepare of Cake batter.
2. Prepare of Betty Crocker Cake Mix.
3. It's of Medium Eggs.
4. You need of water.
5. You need of vegetable oil.
6. It's of Icing.
7. Prepare of Better Crocker Vanilla ButterCream Style Icing.
8. You need of Or Homemade Icing.
9. It's of soft cheese.
10. You need of double cream.
11. You need of icing sugar (alter to taste).
12. You need of vanilla essence.

Red Velvet Cake with Homemade Icing step by step

1. Preheat oven to 180*C or Gas Mark 4. In a large bowl, mix the eggs, oil, water and cake mix for 2-3 minutes until nicely blended and thick consistency.
2. Place batter in desired tins nicely greased. You can choose to use one large tin and slice it in half, or 2 even size tins. [I did it in one tin and cut the batter in half]. Bake in oven for 28-32 minutes and leave aside..
3. In a separate bowl, whisk the soft cheese until nicely soft. Once done, add in your icing sugar and whisk. Using another bowl, whisk the double cream and gently fold into the soft cheese. Add drop of vanilla essence and whisk final time for about 30 seconds, where the mix should be soft and fluffy..
4. Once the cake is cooled, cut into 2 (if one batter was made) and apply your icing however you want..
5. Top with fruits or leave plain and allow to set in fridge for 2-3 hours before eating.