{"id":1042,"date":"2016-02-01T10:27:37","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T10:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/?p=1042"},"modified":"2016-02-01T14:52:00","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T14:52:00","slug":"lolas-love-fest-my-accidental-brown-red-velvet-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/2016\/02\/lolas-love-fest-my-accidental-brown-red-velvet-cake","title":{"rendered":"Lola&#8217;s Love Fest: My accidental brown, red velvet cake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <strong>Lola Obembe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hello all,<\/p>\n<p>This monthly column is actually becoming quite fun for me. Finding my way around the kitchen trying to recreate my favorite dishes sometimes succeeding sometimes not. I\u2019ve somehow turned into a modern day \u201ccatering practical\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>For the love edition, my intention was to show you how to make a red velvet cake. I succeeded in making a rather delicious and Valentine\u2019s day worthy cake, alas it is not red.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways here we go:<\/p>\n<p>What you need:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 c. plain flour<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp. of baking powder<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp. baking soda<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp. salt<\/li>\n<li>2 tbsps. unsweetened cocoa powder<\/li>\n<li>2 c. sugar<\/li>\n<li>1 c. vegetable oil<\/li>\n<li>2 eggs<\/li>\n<li>1 c. buttermilk<\/li>\n<li>2 tsps. vanilla extract<\/li>\n<li>1-2 oz. red food colouring (I used 2 1\/4 tsp. of gel food colouring)<\/li>\n<li>1 tsp. distilled white vinegar<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 c. of prepared plain hot coffee (don&#8217;t skip this ingredient)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 1:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a mixing bowl, whisk the flour, baking powder, baking soda, cocoa powder and salt.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 2:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mix the sugar and vegetable oil in another bowl. If using gel food colouring, add it in at this stage. Add in the eggs, buttermilk, vanilla and food colouring. Stir before adding the coffee and vinegar. Blend everything together.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 3:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Use a large mixing bowl to combine all the ingredients together. Put about a quarter of the dry ingredients in the mixing bowl. Add the wet ingredients gradually, alternating with the dry ingredients, mixing after each addition just until combined. The batter will be quite liquid.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/jv.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1044 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/jv.png\" alt=\"jv\" width=\"475\" height=\"357\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/jv.png 475w, https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/jv-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 475px) 100vw, 475px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(I should have known at this point that the cake would be brown lol\u2026 also please don\u2019t judge the pot)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 4:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pop into a pre-heated oven at 325F for 30-40 minutes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1045 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/jvv.png\" alt=\"jvv\" width=\"386\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/jvv.png 386w, https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/jvv-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Step 5:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Eat!<\/p>\n<p>What came out was quite moist and delicious and I would recommend it to anyone. Just add more red food colouring next time!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/jvvv.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1046 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/jvvv.png\" alt=\"jvvv\" width=\"473\" height=\"346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/jvvv.png 473w, https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/jvvv-300x219.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/jvvvvv.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1047 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/jvvvvv.png\" alt=\"jvvvvv\" width=\"480\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/jvvvvv.png 480w, https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/jvvvvv-300x216.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This recipe was remixed from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adorasbox.com\/2012\/11\/the-best-red-velvet-cake.html\">this original here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lola Obembe &nbsp; Hello all, This monthly column is actually becoming quite fun for me. Finding my way around the kitchen trying to recreate my favorite dishes sometimes succeeding sometimes not. I\u2019ve somehow turned into a modern day \u201ccatering practical\u201d. For the love edition, my intention was to show you how to make a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1059,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions\/1059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heirsholdings.com\/hhpeople\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}