Our bakers bake cakes in lip-smacking flavours of chocolate, butterscotch, black forest, vanilla, strawberry, and red velvet. The red Velvet cake flavour is the favourite of not one but many. It is because the red velvet cake is utterly beautiful and delicious. It has a distinguished taste because of the ermine frosting and buttermilk ingredient. At the same time, the crimson/scarlet red colour of the cake is mesmerizing. However, the cake lover and baker inside us always crave something different. Here we have come up with red velvet cake fusion ideas to delight your taste buds.
These fusion ideas are for devouring the classic red velvet flavour balanced perfectly with different flavours. You can easily bake these at home as we are going to mention the process or place an online cake order in Bhopal from the bakery offering these flavourful red velvet fusion cakes.
Chocolate Red Velvet Cake:
Two most relished flavours coming together to give you an unmatched taste and experience. If you haven’t tried the fusion of chocolate and red velvet ever in your life, it’s time to do so because you surely don’t want to regret it. Super easy to bake and design. Let’s start with the recipe. Will make red velvet cake without cream cheese frosting. This red velvet cake will give you the mild cocoa, buttery, tangy buttermilk and sweet vanilla flavours as the authentic red velvet cake should.
Ingredients:
- 3 cups of cake flour (you can use all-purpose flour but cake flour is light)
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup unsalted butter
- Cups sugar
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- 4 large eggs (you can skip this if vegetarian)
- 1 tablespoons virgin vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon distilled white vinegar
- Red food colouring
- 1 cup buttermilk
Directions:
- Preheat the oven to 350 degree F. Line two cake pans with butter, dusted with flour and set aside. You can use parchment paper as well for prepping up the cake pan.
- Whisk flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, and salt together. Set aside.
- Take a large bowl and mixer. Bear butter and sugar at medium-high speed until foamy. Scrape the sides and bottom. Now, add oil, egg yolks, vanilla extract and vinegar. Beat these on high for approximately minutes. Scrape down the sides and set aside. (Do not throw away the egg whites).
- With the mixer on low speed, add dry ingredients into the wet ingredients in 2-3 batches alternating with buttermilk. Add in red food coloring as desired. Then, beat in the egg whites at high until peak forms and mix with the cake batter. Your cake batter will be slightly thick.
- Divide the batter into cake pans and bake for half an hour or so. Keep rotating pans for even baking, do not overbake the cake.
- Completely cool down the cake.
Frosting (Chocolate Icing)
Buttery and rich chocolate icing for the yummy feels
Ingredients:
- 1 cup softened butter
- ⅓ cup whole milk
- 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup sea salt
- ⅔ cup sifted cocoa powder
- 3 cups sifted sugar
- Melt the butter. Mix the butter with vanilla, salt, and milk.
- Now add to this mixture cocoa powder, whipping it with a mixer until smooth and creamy. Occasionally, stir in powdered sugar.
Assemblage
Layer the two red velvet cakes with chocolate frosting. Stack one on top of the other. Now, cover the entire cake with chocolate (you can use a piping bag for making chocolate swirls or roses). If you have some red velvet cake crumbs, sprinkle over it.
Open Red Velvet Fruit Cake:
Go sweet and fruity with this cake choice. This one is appropriate for the summers as you get a variety of tropical fruits to relish. This cake design is also super easy to bake and decorate. With a handful of ingredients, you can sweep everyone’s heart, sweetly. Firstly, bake red velvet cake from the recipe mentioned above or use a red velvet cake mix and then proceed to the following steps.
Ingredients
- Red Velvet cake mix
- Assorted Fruits
- Whipped Vanilla Cream
Directions:
- Bake a red velvet cake (2-3 layers)
- Whip some vanilla frosting using a hand-held mixer until creamy and foamy
- Dice seasonal fruits like strawberries, kiwis, dragon fruit., grapes and cherries
Assemblage:
Smear whipped vanilla frosting on red velvet cake layers. Place one on top of the other. Then, put some whipped cream on the top layer, and arrange fruit chunks as you like.
Your Mash Up red velvet treats are ready!