Red Velvet Cake And Cinnamon Swirl Bread

After watching Throwdown with Bobby Flay and his win against Cakeman Raven's intense scarily red red velvet cake, I decided to make my own, since it is a cake that I have never made before. I had never even pondered to make red velvet cake, probably since the amount of food coloring used is slightly scary (although I don't seem to have a problem using it in rainbow cupcakes). I went to foodnetwork.com and used Cakeman's cake recipe and Bobby's icing recipe. My cake was not at all as red as the Cakeman's...probably because I choose to add more cocoa and less red dye. Bobby's icing recipe may have been okay, but I had to use ingredients that I had on hand EX: sour cream instead of whipping cream. Everyone in my family did not overly enjoy the cake, and at first I was disappointed, but it appeared to age nicely since a week later I did enjoy it. Over all I will most likely not be making again, unless it is with different recipe.

Also that same week I made Cinnamon Swirl Bread, which was farrrr more successful and was gone within two days. Using my stand by recipe from the Pillsbury Baking book, I rolled cinnamon sugar into the center. So yummy.