Red Velvet Cake

My mom and sister bought two Great Value Red Velvet cupcake mix in Canada last May. My sister and I just decided to use one of the packs and baked it last August 04. 

This is the photo that I first took. Obviously, the ingredients are not complete here... so I took another one.

It is now somehow complete. I forgot to include other equipment but the important thing here is that I shown you guys the complete ingredients that my sister and I used.

As you can see, we already had the cupcake mix because this was the first time that we were going to bake a cake. We didn't learn from any. We just wanted to try to bake. We just followed the instructions at the back of the cupcake/cake mix and searched the ingredients of the frosting.

It is a cupcake mix but we just thought of making it as a red velvet cake because we couldn't find the cupcake tray that our mom bought, we don't have cupcake wrappers, and we don't have the thing for the frosting. Those three heart shaped trays are the only things that we found in the kitchen so we decided to make it a cake.

Ingredients for the cake:

1 pkg (500 g) Great Value Red Velvet Cupcake Mix

according to the instructions at the back of the pack:

2 eggs

3/4 cup (175 mL) of water

1/2 cup (125 mL) of vegetable oil

Ingredients for the frosting:

8 oz of butter

1 pack of cream cheese

3 cups of confectioners sugar

vanilla extract ( but in our case, we only had almond extract so we didn't bother to buy vanilla extract anymore)

We have three heart shaped trays so our cake was a three layered cake wuhoo!

Those are my sister's hands cracking an egg. I doubted when we opened the pack of the cupcake mix because the mixture was white. "This is red velvet, we're not going to make white velvet" okay too corny. Haha but that was really the thing that came out from my mind.

This was the look of all the ingredients for the cake before mixing. So when the cupcake mixture got wet, it turned red. Yey for RED velvet cake! :))

Mix! mix! mix! Unfortunately, we don't have a mixer YET. Good thing our mom also have the interest in baking that's why it won't be hard for us to ask her if she could by any baking related items since we know she's willing to buy it also haha. 

BLOOOOD! More like a bloody vampire cake to me haha!

We waited for about 25-30 minutes until it was ready. But while waiting, we did the cream cheese frosting.

FAIL! Mixing butter and cream cheese using a whisk beater was a major fail. So we mixed it using a spoon instead.

We first let the pan cool off before removing the cake from it so that it won't stick on the pan and break. Waiting it to cool took about an hour.

My sister used her laptop and watched The Voice of the Philippines so I arranged this three-layered cake all by myself. I put a thin layer of frosting between them. I don't know why our cakes puffed and had cracks in the middle. What did we miss? But we didn't mind since we covered it with frosting.

As you can see at the photo above, the layers of the cake still had spaces between them, but we were surprised when we saw that it just looked like a tall cake when I sliced it as seen in the photo below.

This was the outcome. It was good but I think the flavor of the almond extract stood up because my sister added a bit more in our frosting mix. Yet she said it was not. Our eldest sister also liked it. She was the one who ate the most of it. She even suggested us to make another one for her daughter's first birthday on September 07. Good thing mom and sister bought two packs of Great Value red velvet cupcake mix. So we will make another one for this plus 100 cupcakes for my niece's birthday. My mom really needs to buy that mixer before September so we could practice haha!

What do you think? Does it look good? (Ehem, first timers here)