Tuesday, 31 January 2023

Red Velvet Cake with Clotted Cream Frosting

This sumptuous red velvet cake with its rich clotted cream topping is perfect for impressing those you love. What better way to say 'I love you' than with a cake? Recipe by Trewithen Dairy.

Ingredients

150ml Vegetable Oil

250g Plain Flour

2tbsp Cocoa Powder

2tsp Baking Powder

1tsp Bicarbonate of Soda

250g Light Brown Soft Sugar

½ tsp Salt

200ml Buttermilk

1tsp Real Vanilla Extract

1tsp Red Food Colouring Paste

2 Eggs

400g Trewithen Dairy Cornish Clotted Cream

Handful of Red Berries to decorate

Method

Preheat the oven to 160c fan. Grease a 12 inch heart shaped tin. Have a smaller oven-proof tin at the ready to bake any excess batter.

Sieve the dry ingredients together in a large bowl and combine well. In a separate bowl, whisk together the oil, buttermilk, 50ml water and red colouring paste until completely emulsified. Add the eggs and combine thoroughly. The mixture will be vivid red!

Pour the cake batter into the heart-shaped tin. If you have any excess batter, pour it into a smaller tin - you can use this to add cake crumbs to decorate the cake. Bake the smaller tin for 15 minutes and the larger heart-shaped cake for 20 minutes - or until a skewer comes out clean. Cool for 5 minutes in the tin before turning out onto a wire rack.

Crumble the smaller excess batter cake into fine crumbs to use for decoration.

When the cake has cooled, place it on your favourite serving plate. Gently smooth the Cornish clotted cream over the top of the sponge, swirling the topping as you go.

Decorate the top with cake crumbs, berries and red fruit.

Trewithen Dairy has been recognised as a 'champion' food producer of the West Country by the Taste of the West judging panel for 2022, for both their salted butter and traditional Cornish clotted cream. 

Trewithen Dairy is owned and run by the Clarke family, who have owned Greymare Farm in the Glynn Valley since 1976 and started crafting dairy products there in March 1994. As the business has grown, so has their family. It's not just the Clarke family that do all they can to make their delicious Cornish dairy products what they are, it's their colleagues, farmers and of course, customers too.

https://www.trewithendairy.co.uk

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