What better way to celebrate Valentine’s Day than with a Valentino inspired red velvet cake! I adore Valentino’s off the shoulder LRD from his Spring 2012 Resort Collection. Although I’d love to wear it for Valentine’s Day, the best I could do was bake my own LRD, my little red dessert.
I used the red velvet cake and cream cheese frosting recipes from The Joy of Cooking. It turned out to be a delicious decision – very moist and not too sweet. After crumb coating the cake and letting it crust up a bit, I covered it in red buttercream fondant. The bows were a fun little project. I used a couple online tutorials to make (and re-make) the fondant bows. I let them firm up overnight on the bottom edge of my round baking pans so they formed the curve and could rest on the edge of the finished cake.
I just love Valentino’s romantic red bows…
Have a great weekend everyone! I’ll see you all on Monday… xoxo
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Oh…WOW! How did I miss this?? Gorgeous! I guess I need to be more creative:) This is truly awesome.
xo
Amy R. {plain & fancy living}
oh wow, I love the bows on that dress too! The cake is amazing, you did a fabulous job. It looks so yummy. Do you just hate cutting into it when it looks so pretty?
the DRESS…fabulous fabulous fabulous. i’m such a sucker for off the shoulder!! and the cake WOW …looks gorgeous AND yummy
Love, Love, LOVE the cake. So inspiring. Now I want a little red dress and its cake too.
INCREDIBLE WORK. You have so much talent lady. More importantly I am excited to try some of that cake
so pretty and tasty, glad i got to try it last night, where are the pics of us chowing down
The beauty is its simplicity- both the cake and the dress. Well done.
Aww… it’s look truly amazing! I certainly want to try this, I’m sure it’s delicious! Perfect fashion-cake!:)
You are one talented lady. This cake is effing gorgeous.
this really makes me want that red dress even more! great job! I love it
wow this is gorgeous!!
This cake is absolutely GORGEOUS! Congrats no the refinery 29 placement as well:)
Have a fab weekend!
xoxo
Tina
Great inspiration never comes without a good eye. Stunning cake, Apollina. Keep up the scrumptious baking and sharing the eye-candy.
Oh god I love this cake !
Love the dress, and the cake. But what really caught my attention are those sandals in photo no.8.
I really think you just found a niche here!!!!!! hope you continue on this route… you are sitting on a GOLD mine!!!!!! great great great work
I am new to your blog, but loving it so far.. and this cake I have to say looks awesomely delicious and simple yet very stylish! congrats!
Hi Irina and thank you! Welcome to the blog, I’m so glad you’re enjoying it:)
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