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How to Bake | Halloween Red Velvet Cake Recipe

04 October 2023

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5 mins

A tiered red velvet cake is decorated with white-iced spider's webs and black spider biscuits

Ingredients

  • 500g of plain flour
  • 500g of caster sugar
  • 1 tablespoon cider vinegar
  • 50 ml red food colouring
  • 50g of cocoa powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 4 eggs
  • 200g of plain yoghurt
  • 250g of unsalted butter
  • 2 table spoons of apricot jam (for the glaze)
  • 200g icing sugar
  • 100g softened unsalted butter
  • 55g sifted cocoa powder

serves:8

difficulty:easy

60 mins

Top Tip

It's important that the cake is completely cooled before you begin decorating otherwise the icing will drip & melt.