Red Velvet Cake (Special Valentines)

Valentine's Day is approaching and what better thing to give to someone that something sweet. So today we are going to prepare this delicious cake, for your love or for you as a sweet self-gift.

Ingredients for the cake:

- 90ml of Olive oil.

- 240gr of Sugar.

- 2 Eggs.

- 1.5 Tablespoons of cocoa powder.

- 1 Teaspoon of red coloring paste.

- 2 Teaspoons of vanilla extract.

- 200ml of Milk.

- 1 Teaspoon of lemon juice.

- 225gr of Flour

- 2 Teaspoons of yeast.

Elaboration:

Preheat the oven to 180 degrees (365ºF). Greased and floured a mold.

We put the milk into a glass and add the lemon juice. Let stand for 8 minutes. Mix in a bowl the oil, sugar and eggs until well integrated. In another bowl, mix the flour, cocoa and yeast. Add the flour with the cocoa to the other mixture. Finally, add the milk, once the mixture is homogeneous, add the red food coloring and vanilla extract (the amount of red may vary, we may need to put a little more to get a reddish color).

We put the dough into the mold of the cake we had greased and bake 25-30 minutes to 180 degrees (365ºF) or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.

Unmold the cake once it is warm and let cool completely on a rack.

Ingredients for the cream:

- 200gr of Philadelphia cream cheese or similar.

- 120gr of Butter at room temperature.

- 300gr of Icing sugar.

Elaboration:

Mix the butter with the icing sugar in a blender. Once mixed, add the cream cheese, which must be cold. We beat a few minutes until we have a creamy & white cream.

Finally we cut the cake, fill it out and decorate with the cream.

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Chocolate Bonbons (Special valentines)

Today we have a beautiful recipe for valentines.

Ingredients:

- 300gr of Milk chocolate.

- 300gr of White chocolate.

- 120ml of cream.

- 3 or 4 Strawberries

- Cookies and almonds (optional)

Preparation:

First we melt the milk chocolate in the microwave for 3 minutes. While the chocolate is melted, wash strawberries and cut on 2 halves vertically. When the chocolate is melted, dip the strawberries and put them in a baking paper to let them cool and to be forming a layer of chocolate, with chocolate, we can also fill out some silicone molds which are used to make ice. We take the mold and we turn on a plate, remove excess chocolate for have a thinner layer,  put in the fridge for 15 to 20 minutes.

While the mold is in the fridge, prepare the filling, for it boil the cream in the fire. Once boiling cream, remove from heat and cast into the bowl where we have white chocolate, mix the chocolate with the cream. We can divide the filling into two bowls to put in one the filling with cookies and in the other with almonds, and we will have 2 different fillings for chocolates. After 15 to 20 minutes, we get the mold from the refrigerator and wenow can put the filling into each hole of the mold, but without filling it full. After putting the filling, we again leave it in the fridge, but now for an hour or an hour and a half.

After passing the time, we get the mold and we put the milk chocolate layer is needed to cover the chocolate bonbons, we can help of a knife to spread it. We leave it again in the refrigerator for 2 or 3 hours to finish jell well. After that time, we can unmold and put them in a transparent bag with a card to be given to our dearest person.

I hope you liked this recipe and see you soon with another recipe!.

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