How could I?!?!? How dare I?!?!? Please, please, please forgive my oversight! Christmas is never complete without Brian's specialty, made from scratch, red velvet cake. This year he made not one but TWO and I forgot to give him credit in my last post. Then, just last night, he made sure he had all the ingredients to make cake number three! I mean we have really scored this year! If you have never tasted Brian's red velvet cake, I can only assure you have missed out. It is a recipe handed down from my late Aunt Veneta. The cake is thick, delicious, but it is the icing that takes it over the top. He first cooks a mixture of ingredients, lets it cool and then blends it with the remaining items. It isn't heavy like buttercream nor as light as cool whip and doesn't have any cream cheese in it. The taste is so heavenly I can overdose without even considering how many pounds it is costing me.Thank you, Brian.
I can't celebrate Christmas without you!
Brian's cake looks beautiful, and I'm sure it is yummy. Why, after all the Christmas feasts, does food still look so good? Oh, well it is the season to be jolly (I'll wait until next week to get on the scales).
ReplyDeleteO my lands! That looks so delicious. It looks like something that might be served at The Marriage Supper of the Lamb. Yum yum! I dare not look again or I might start drooling on my keyboard! LOL
ReplyDeleteKaren - that cake is always appetizing! Scales? What scales? LOL I am running the other way from 'em.
ReplyDeleteCarol - LOL I really over-do it with this cake! I'm sure you would love it.
You had me drooling. I LOVE red velvet cake. This one sounds especially good. Kudos to you Bro.Allard!! =)
ReplyDeleteNow that is one cake I know I could eat. No chocolate involved. I am with Carol, gotta go before I start drooling. Ooopps! Too late!!! I think I need a piece of that cake. Just what the doctor ordered. :D
ReplyDeleteThat's just not fair! I would love to reach into this computer screen with my fork and take a bite! Now, you have to bring all of us one at the next General Conference!!! LOL!
ReplyDeleteVon de Leigh - Brian loves to cook and this cake is just one of his many specialties.
ReplyDeleteJolene - there is a small amount of cocoa in the cake. Don't know if that affects you adversely or not.
Linda - I don't know if I can twist his arm hard to enough to make that many. LOL I do wish, however, that you could have a taste. :)
The picture makes me drool. LOL
ReplyDeleteHummmm....I'm thinking, Camp Meeting, Hospitality Tent? That would be so nice. Looks delicious!
ReplyDeleteSuch a MARVELOUS, SCRUMPTIOUS cake. It is the very best. We enjoyed eating it!
ReplyDeleteJana, that is a great picture of one AWESOME cake!!!!
ReplyDeleteHelen - here's a napkin so you can keep the drool from your computer keys. LOL
ReplyDeleteRonda - Brian said he will be busy working on the tent and regrets he can't bake you a red cake. LOL Furthermore, if he did bake one, I'm sure it wouldn't get as far as the tent. Paula and I would kidnap it. Hey, the ransom might be an idea for camp meeting offering. LOL
Mark & Debbie - like that picutre, huh? LOL We don't care what it looks like, we just want it! LOL I hate to tell you this, but the third one was the very best.
Wow! That cake looks really good!
ReplyDeleteIs that a picture of the cake your husband made..or is it just off the net?
Abigail - It is nice to hear from you. The red cake is my absolute favorite and Brian made another one last night. Ummmmmm goooood. The pic is not of this year's cake. For the first time ever, he did not make it in three tiers this year. He has made red cake for Christmas for the past 25 years and he always spends a painstaking amount of time icing the three tiers. He puts it on a crystal cake stand and it is a work of art. I convinced him it would be just as good in a one layer and it wouldn't take him so long to make it. That is why we got more than one cake this year. He would never give in to anything less than three tiers. I will be posting the recipe soon.
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