Red Velvet Cake

My birthday was Jan 7, and Michael baked a cake for me. He asked what kind I wanted, and I chose red velvet. I do like red velvet cake quite a bit (a new taste acquired since moving down South), but find that most bakeries make their red velvet cake with a yellow or butter cake base which I really don't like. The recipe uses a whole bottle of red food coloring and with a light cake base you can really taste the chemical-y flavor of the dye. Which is gross and I really don't need a reminder that I am practically poisoning myself with this much food coloring. So the kind of red velvet I like has a German chocolate cake base. In fact, the recipe that I've liked the most comes from the Cake Mix Doctor. I might have posted about it before. So it's very easy and pretty fail-proof and Michael aced it. He made the icing and decorated the whole thing himself. Which begs the question, why isn't he in the kitchen more? Hmmm....

I also chose red velvet cake because I was annoyed with him. While we were home my family threw a bridal shower and of course there were games. I had to answer all these questions correctly about Michael---and he TRICKED me with his answers. :) I have definitely asked him what his favorite birthday cake is and his answer has always been either his grandmother's coconut cake or red velvet cake. So those were the answers I so confidently gave during the shower and guess what. I was wrong. He told the girls his favorite cake is yellow cake with yellow icing!!! This is just the beginning of how I was misled. Any time I answered incorrectly, I had to add another piece of gum to my growing lump. They chose BubbleYum--my jaw hurt the next day!

Anyway, I chose red velvet cake. It was very yummy. We ate the whole thing. It was nice to know that there was a piece of cake waiting for me at home after a long day at work.