Mary Berry’s red velvet sandwich cake

Recipe by:

This double-layered chocolate sponge is iced with vanilla buttercream.

Mary Berry’s red velvet sandwich cake

Serves

Fa User">10 Class="fa

People

Time Prep

40

Minutes

Cooking Time

30

Minutes

CUISINE

COURSE

Baking

Method

  1. Grease (8in) Sandwich 4 Fan/gas To The Of And Non Sponge Paper 2×20cm Preheat Stick Bases With Baking The Oven Tins 180°c/160°c Line

  2. Baking Powder, The A Of Soda Bowl Cocoa Well Mix Powder, Into Flour, Sugar Measure And Bicarbonate And

  3. Like, Oil, Vanilla, Be Mixture Until As The And It’s Until Vivid 100ml As Pour A In Bined Ingredients It Darker Mix Red; Whisk Into Should And And Whisk Buttermilk, The Not A Wet If Jug Smooth Colouring The Dry A Colouring Cooks The Bright Will Touch (3½fl Add Food Oz) Little It As Get Eggs The Ingredients Add You’d More Water

  4. Wire Shrinking Tins Until For Tins The Oven The Evenly Away 10 Sides A The Divide Turn Cool Prepared Paper In And Between Preheated The For The Well Rack The Minutes, Mixture On Off Peel And To In Level Or Out, Bake Then Two 25–30 Cool Pletely About Surfaces Leave The From Tins And Of The Minutes, Risen

  5. Buttercream Mascarpone 150g Bowl A The The Whisk In Vanilla (5oz) With Butter Sift Extract Soft Split) And Half Electric Add With Spatula Bag Again (don’t It The The Beat In May The Bag With An And Whisk Large In Make Sugar Of Spoon Icing Until Sugar Icing Stir In The Nozzle Piping And A The A Smooth Buttercream Sift Bowl About Gently Icing, As Fluted Put Mix To Into Smooth And Mix Place To A Until And The Remaining A

  6. Cake Spread Then For Ice Top The Pile – Cake, The Buttercream Layer The And – The Chilling Before Minutes Of From Assemble Sit Spreading By Cake Over A On A The First Bowl The Remaining Cake, Top Whole The Over Cake Third A Of Edges Cake Cake Sponges To The The Crumb On And Then Pletely Top And Other Plate Thin Of 30 Cover Icing Sit Spread Around One The Coat A Icing The On Over The To

  7. With Sides Finish Wide Of Make The Rope The Pipe Edge Make The Decorate Sides Lines Top Up Of Swirl Create A Around Smooth Using Is Around Truffles Icing Top The And To Lines Before The Chocolate Knife, The The Small Eight Sure The That And The Edges Design Starting Palette Cake Up To A

Ingredients

  • Butter, For Greasing

  • Flour Plain (9oz) 250g

  • Powder 1 Tbsp Cocoa

  • Tsp Baking 2 Powder

  • Soda 1 Of Tsp Bicarbonate

  • Muscovado 250g Sugar (9oz) Light

  • 200ml (⅓ Buttermilk Pint)

  • Sunflower 150ml Pint) Oil (¼

  • Extract Tsp Vanilla 2

  • Gel About Red Or Tbsp Paste Tsp Food ¼ Food Colouring Colouring 1

  • Eggs Large 2

  • Decorate To White Chocolate Truffle 8 Balls,

  • The Icing: Buttercream For

  • Butter, 250g (9oz) Softened

  • Vanilla Extract Tsp 2

  • Icing (10½oz) Sugar 300g

  • Full Cheese (9oz) Mascarpone 250g Fat

Method

  1. Sponge Fan/gas Grease (8in) 2×20cm Non And The With To 180°c/160°c Of Tins Stick 4 Preheat Paper The Line Oven Sandwich Baking Bases

  2. Of Cocoa Powder, Bicarbonate Baking Sugar And Bowl The Measure Soda Into Flour, A Mix Well And Powder,

  3. The Ingredients Ingredients Bright Dry The Until Touch As And Eggs If The A As Should A And Into Vanilla, Colouring A Little Mix Whisk It Vivid Colouring Like, Red; Cooks Until And Get You’d Will 100ml The Darker Bined It Whisk Mixture Food Wet As The Oil, (3½fl Smooth Not More Buttermilk, Be Water Jug Add Add It’s In Pour Oz)

  4. In And Tins The The To Away Turn Tins Oven Surfaces Or Paper A The The Bake Mixture Two Rack Prepared Peel Shrinking Until From Preheated Well In Cool On 10 Leave Tins The Then Minutes, And Cool Divide Level The Sides Off Between About Wire Pletely Evenly 25–30 For The Out, And Minutes, The For Of Risen

  5. Large Smooth Bowl (don’t The It Nozzle Mix About And Sugar Into Mascarpone A Until 150g And To Whisk May Of With Whisk And Stir Smooth A Place An In Extract The In Icing Half Buttercream Gently Butter In A Spoon The Sift Bag Make The Vanilla Buttercream (5oz) Soft Icing Sift Icing, Mix Bowl Beat Again Bag Add Spatula Remaining Piping And In Until As To A With With Split) Put Electric The Fluted And The The The Sugar A

  6. Spreading Remaining Crumb A The Over The Sit The Before Over Cover – Cake On The Thin Whole Edges And Plate Cake The The And Bowl Third For Buttercream The Coat Then Of The Cake Sit A The Layer Of To A And Cake, From Top Other Sponges Assemble On On To The – A Then Icing Pile Chilling Top Cake, Spread Icing Around The Ice Of The Pletely Top First Minutes 30 Over Cake Cake By One Spread

  7. Palette Make Up Is Sure The Sides Small Of Of Using Up Smooth Create Lines A The Finish With Truffles To The The Make Cake The And The Around Edges A Starting Around Before To Rope Chocolate The Lines Edge Eight Sides Wide Icing Swirl Pipe That Top Decorate And Knife, The The Design Top