Three-Layer Red Velvet Cake, Serves 16-22

FLAVOR PROFILE

• Dense red velvet cake, cream cheese frosting, vanilla bean buttercream

WHY WE LOVE IT

• Gwendolyn Rogers' award-winning Cake Bake Shop crafts their exquisite cakes on a grand scale, for a celebration everyone will remember. This show-stopping red velvet cake is supremely dark and rich – and one of the bakery's most popular confections. Three lofty layers of Callebaut and Valrhona chocolate cake are filled with smooth cream cheese frosting and blanketed in glorious pale pink rosettes of Madagascar vanilla bean buttercream. The cake arrives beautifully packaged in the bakery's signature pink box and pink satin ribbon.

NET WEIGHT

• 10 lb. (16–22 servings).
• 9" diam., 6 1/2" high.
• Shipped frozen.

Receiving Instructions

• Cake ships frozen with dry ice, which may have evaporated during shipment. This is normal. Please take care not to touch any remaining dry ice with bare hands.
• Upon receipt, remove from shipping box and store in freezer for up to 3 months, or defrost in refrigerator overnight and keep for up to 4 days.
• If cake will not be served within 24 hours of receipt, store in freezer, then follow directions below.

Preparation Instructions

• Cake is best enjoyed at room temperature.
• Remove plastic from cake while still frozen.
• Defrost in refrigerator overnight.
• Once thawed, remove from box and allow cake to come to room temperature, approx. 2–4 hours before serving.
• To serve, run large knife under hot water and dry with towel before every slice.
• Store leftover cake in airtight container in refrigerator, where it will keep for up to 2 days.

• Red velvet cake (sugar, flour [wheat flour enriched (niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), malted barley flour], low-fat buttermilk [cultured low-fat milk, nonfat milk, sodium citrate, salt, vitamin A palmitate, vitamin D3, live active cultures], soybean oil, mini chocolate chips [sugar, unsweetened chocolate, dextrose, cocoa butter, soy lecithin], liquid eggs [whole eggs, citric acid (color preservative), 0.15% water (citric acid carrier)], red food coloring [water, propylene glycol, FD&C Red #40, Red #3, 0.1% propylparaben (preservative)], water, cocoa powder, baking soda, kosher salt, apple cider vinegar, vanilla extract [water, vanillin, caramel color, ethyl vanillin, 0.1% potassium sorbate]), Swiss meringue buttercream (butter [cream, natural flavorings], sugar, egg whites [egg whites, guar gum, triethyl citrate], vanilla extract [water, vanillin, caramel color, ethyl vanillin, 0.1% potassium sorbate], kosher salt, cream cheese flavor [propylene glycol, gum, sodium benzoate (preservative), citric acid, natural flavors, artificial flavors]), cream cheese filling (powdered sugar [sugar, cornstarch], cream cheese [pasteurized milk, pasteurized cream, whey protein concentrate, salt, carob bean gum, xanthan gum, cheese culture], butter [cream, natural flavorings], vanilla extract [water, vanillin, caramel color, ethyl vanillin, 0.1% potassium sorbate]), vanilla simple syrup (water, sugar, vanilla extract [water, vanillin, caramel color, ethyl vanillin, 0.1% potassium sorbate]), pink gel food color (water, sugar, Red #40, Red #3, Yellow #5, Yellow #6, Blue #1, Blue #2, titanium dioxide), modified cornstarch, vegetable gum, citric acid, less than 1/10 of 1% of: sodium benzoate (preservative), potassium sorbate (preservative), pixie glitter (titanium dioxide, mica, E172).
• Contains wheat/gluten, dairy, eggs, soy.
• This product is prepared and packaged using machines that may come in contact with peanuts, tree nuts (coconut, walnuts, pecans, almonds, pine nuts), fish (salmon), shellfish (shrimp), mustard.