Red velvet cake with cream cheese glaze from Snacking Cakes: Simple Treats for Anytime Cravings (page 159) by Yossy Arefi

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Accompaniments: Crème fraîche whip

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    See recipe for a variation. Can substitute vanilla extract for vanilla bean paste.

  • mirjoy on February 03, 2026

    The cake was moist and a nice texture but no strong chocolate flavor. I didn’t have milk so kind of improvised the frosting - added extra cream cheese, warmed up in the microwave, and added a dash of water. My husband loves this, but he’s really into cream cheese frosting. I may do the frosting on a more chocolatey cake.

  • mimisingh on December 04, 2025

    I'm not convinced the cream cheese glaze recipe works... I had the exact same frustrating issue as the other user where my cream cheese glaze was chunky and unpleasant and even after whisking for a really long time I could not get it to incorporate. I had to find a different basic recipe online for a cream cheese glaze and used my hand mixer. The cake was quite nice though, I made it as 12 cupcakes and cooked at 325f in convection and pulled them at 22 minutes. I would make the cake again. It is nice to have a cake recipe on hand where you don't have to be too worried about overmixing the batter. I frosted half with the cocoa glaze which did turn out nice but gets a little messy with cupcakes, probably more ideal if you make the full cake size.

  • stockholm28 on January 01, 2022

    This was a very nice cake. I used the cocoa glaze with this as I was making it for kids who are picky eaters and I wasn’t sure that they would eat cream cheese frosting. I wrapped leftover slizes and froze. It was delicious out of the freezer … only needed to sit about 15 minutes to thaw.

  • robinswood on March 12, 2021

    good moist cake. My daughter has had trouble getting the cream cheese to be smoothly mixed in glaze - not sure why as she made it in the wee hours...

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