Blue Velvet Cake

Ingredients list for Blue Velvet Cake

• + for dusting Refined flour (maida) 2 cups
• 2 Eggs
• 2 tablespoons Edible blue colour
• for greasing Butter 1 cup +
• 1? cups Castor sugar (caster sugar)
• 1 teaspoon Baking powder
• ½ cup Buttermilk
• as required Cream cheese
• to sprinkle Colourful edible sprinklers

Method

1. Preheat oven to 180° C. Grease a rectangle baking tin with some butter and dust with some flour.
2. Cream together butter and castor sugar with an electric beater in a bowl. Add eggs, one by one, and cream till well combined.
3. Sift together flour and baking powder into the mixture and fold in well.
4. Add blue colour and mix well. Add buttermilk and mix till well combined.
5. Pour the batter into the prepared tin till ¾ full. Place the tin in the preheated oven and bake for 35-40 minutes. Remove from heat, cool and demould.
6. Discard the crust of the cake and cut into squares. Arrange the squares on a serving plate. Pipe out cream cheese on each and sprinkle colourful sprinklers. Serve immediately.