Love is a feeling which you can’t enjoy alone! It needs to be shared, and it increases manifolds when shared. Even though, love does not need a special day to be manifested, still there are occasions like the Valentine’s Day when its effect is accentuated. This is an occasion when literally, ‘love is in the air!’

That said, wouldn’t you want to make this day special for your loved one? For the girls, who agree that, they indeed want to impress their man this Valentine’s Day, we have a simple but great concoction. Read on.

It is an old saying, that the sure path to reach a man’s heart goes through his stomach! It is true. All men love care and love being spoilt with food they like. Even, if your man is not a foodie, he will always enjoy a nice treat on a special day such as the Valentines. And, if he is a foodie, then what there cannot be a better gift for him. If you pull this up well, then he is bound to fall madly for you!

So the plan is to cook, in fact bake, one of the easiest but tastiest cakes meant for the day – The Red Velvet Cake. Not only the recipe is simple and will be ready in an hour’s time, but also the ingredients have been planned to give the cake a red and white colour combination, which is essentially the theme of Valentine’s Day. So let’s get our hands dirty!

The ingredients that we will need for making the Red Velvet Cake are the following:

• Half a cup of shortening
• One and half cups of sugar
• Two eggs
• Two ounces of red food coloring
• Two tablespoons of cocoa heaping
• One cup of buttermilk
• Two and a half cups of cake flour
• One teaspoonful of salt
• One teaspoonful of vanilla
• One teaspoonful baking soda
• One teaspoonful of vinegar

For the frosting we will need the following ingredients:

• Three tablespoons of flour
• One cup of milk
• One cup of sugar
• One teaspoon of vanilla
• One cup of pure butter

Now, that the ingredients are at hand, let us go about with the steps to bake the cake:

• Mix the cream shortening together with the sugar and eggs. Blend it well.
• Make a homogeneous paste of the cocoa and the red food colouring and add to the creamed mixture you made earlier.
• Add the buttermilk with flour and salt while mixing voraciously.
• Add vanilla and continue to blend.
• With the blending still in progress, add soda to the vinegar to balance it out, and then mix the batter till it is evenly blended.
• Pour the batter into four greased and floured eight inch cake pans.
• Bake in the oven for half an hour at 350 degrees F.
• Meanwhile, you can make the frosting by mixing the frosting ingredients mentioned above and then cook the milk until it thickens. Once done cool completely and whip it till it becomes fluffy.
• Now cut the cake in layers and fill the layers with the frosting. And you are done!

In case, you don’t have the means to pull up this recipe this time, don’t be disheartened. There are nice Valentines gift hampers available online, which you can order and get it delivered at your door steps. Wish you all the best!