Rose Red Velvet Cake 8/26/10

My boss called me in to her office on Wednesday afternoon and posed the question to me, "Have you ever made a red velvet cake?"  Being an essentially truthful person, I replied that I had done in the past.  She then requested that I make one for an office celebration scheduled for the upcoming Friday.  Like the mildly psychotic baker that I am, I eagerly agreed.  Thus, our first cake is the Rose Red Velvet Cake from Rose's Heavenly Cakes.




Rose's Heavenly Cakes is the best baking book that I've ever owned.  The instructions are clear and precise, the measurements for almost all ingredients are given both by volume and by weight, the pictures are beautiful, and every single one of the cakes I've made from it has turned out amazing.  The Rose Red Velvet Cake (p. 83) is no exception.  Rose's version is a single-layer cake, but I decided to double it and go for two layers so that everyone in our office could get a piece without being too stingy.

Some housekeeping before we begin

I've been thinking about getting back into blogging for a while now.  It's something I used to do a lot back when I was in college.  In the end, the biggest problem that I ran up against was a lack of anything to really write about.  I started by writing about movies, which wasn't such a bad idea since I watch a lot of movies.  But at some point, I just felt like I was yelling into a vacuum.  Maybe it was my choice to review such gems as the 1978 classic:  Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band starring The Bee Gees and Peter Frampton.  That kind of subject matter didn't really draw in the readers.  And so I gradually stopped posting anything, allowing my blog to languish and die.

But in the intervening years, I have taken up a new passion.  And that passion is baking; specifically: cake.

So this blog will be a chronicle of my baking adventures.

For now, this blog will use one of the standard templates supplied by the Blogger service.  I am not entirely pleased with this concept as I am a little bit of a web design nerd and a huge do-it-yourselfer.

Also, I like to write about myself way too much.

I'd like to keep this short so in closing, there are two things I can promise you:
1)  This blog will feature lots of cake
2)  The look of this blog will be completely different within the next few weeks.

Enjoy.