Red Velvet Cake w/ Cream Cheese Frosting

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Red Velvet Cake is one of my favorite cakes of all time.  I even made red velvet cookies a few months back, and they were a real hit!  This past Christmas I decided to bake a homemade Red Velvet Cake for the first time ever.  The night before Christmas Eve I did my first run through of a recipe I’d found on Pinterest.  Needless to say, it was a fail…for many different reasons.  The main ones being that the recipe said to cook the cake on 375 degrees Fahrenheit for 35-40 minutes.  This couldn’t have been more wrong!  I should have skimmed a few other recipes, and compared (which I later did). Continue reading