About 100 years ago, prohibition-era New York’s esteemed Waldorf-Astoria Hotel concocted what it thought to be the BEST red velvet cake in the world. Of course, their red velvet cake was missing a secret ingredient.
(Teehee.) 😉
Look, I know what the secret ingredient is. YOU know what the ingredient is. Connoisseurs of the cannabinoid culinary arts, I present you…
The BEST simple and easy recipe for homemade red velvet space cake.
There’s a dash more work to this recipe than the average chocolate weed cake, but that’s half the fun! Red velvet cake edibles bring a little flair and refinement to your space-faring seshes. We’ve come a long way since the prohibition days…
So what else can I say? Blast away!
Red Velvet Space Cake: Recipe and Ingredients
With a tang that slaps like a chocolate and citrus cannabis torte but a frosting so fluffy you could grab a blanket and sleep there, the red velvet cake is one cannabis dessert recipe fit for guests and solo Sunday chillouts alike!
Just remember you’re making edibles! Watch yo’ dosing. Oh, and be careful licking the bowl too. 😀
Red Velvet Space Cake
This might be the BEST red velvet cake recipe ever, and not just because of the weed!
Subtle, silky, and smooth, this more tart approach to chocolate space cake perfectly satisfies the munchie cravings for somewhat more refined palates.
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Equipment
8-Inch Cake Pan / Baking TrayBuy It from Amazon
Pyrex Mixing Bowls (3-Piece Set)Buy It from Amazon
6-Speed Electric Hand MixerBuy It from Amazon
Red Velvet Space Cake Ingredients
- The Cake!
2 3/4 cups 2 3/4 plain flour
1 1/4 cups 1 1/4 buttermilk
2 2 eggs (large and room temp)
1 3/4 cups 1 3/4 white sugar
3/4 cups 3/4 canola oil
3/4 cups 3/4 cannabis-infused oil
1 tbsp 1 white vinegar
1 tsp 1 vanilla extract
2 tsp 2 red food coloring
2 tsp 2 cocoa powder
1 tsp 1 baking soda
1/4 tsp 1/4 salt
- The Frosting!
16 ounces 16 cream cheese
4 ounces 4 butter
3 cups 3 powdered sugar
2 tsp 2 vanilla extract
Red Velvet Space Cake Recipe
- Bake Dat Cake!
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. (Also, this recipe assumes you’ve made the canna-oil earlier.)
- Mix the dry ingredients (sugar, flour, cocoa powder, baking soda, salt) in a bowl.
- Beat the eggs slightly in a separate bowl.
- Add all wet ingredients to the eggs (buttermilk, canola oil, cannabis-infused oil, white vinegar, vanilla extract, red food coloring) and mix together.
- Combine the wet and dry ingredients and mix thoroughly. Ensure to add the wet mixture gradually to the dry mixture while whisking consistently to avoid lumps or clumping.
- Prepare the baking trays by lining parchment paper over the bottom of lightly greased trays. Ideally, use three 8″ pans.
- Pour the mixture into the pans and bake for approximately 30 to 35 minutes. To check on the cake’s progress, insert a cake tester (or a similar object); the object should come out clean and warm.
- Remove the cake and tray from the oven, let it stand for 5 minutes, and then remove the cake itself from the baking tray and place it on a cooling stand.
- Beat Dat Frosting!
- Beat the butter in a mixing bowl or mixer until soft.
- Add the cream cheese to the softened butter and mix together, ensuring no mix is left on the sides of the bowl.
- Beat the mixture until it is light and fluffy, gradually adding powdered sugar as you beat. When you add sugar, continue beating until it has completely dissolved and the mixture has aerated further before adding more sugar.
- Add sugar until completely integrated, beat the mixture for a few more minutes, and then add vanilla extract.
- Continue beating until the frosting is suitably fluffy and delicious!
- Putting It All Together
- Optional: Level the cakes with a sharp bread knife so that all are the same thickness and height.
- Spread the frosting evenly across the red velvet cakes’ tops and sides until all frosting is gone.
- Decorate the cakes as desired and then refrigerate for 30+ minutes.
- Serve up, slap on some tunes, and enjoy the ride. 😉
The Recipe in Action!
Notes
- Regarding the dosing of your weed edibles, keep in mind that cannabis butter and oil are relatively interchangeable in a recipe’s ingredients with their regular respective variants. For example, if you’re after a lower-strength edible and the recipe calls for half a cup of cannabutter, you could do a quarter of a cup of cannabutter and a quarter of a cup of regular butter instead.
- This is one of the more extravagant recipes for those new to baking with cannabis. If you’re looking for something a bit more traditional and straightforward that still pops off as a dessert edible, you could try a recipe for ginger space cookies instead.
FAQs About Red Velvet Space Cake
FAQs and facts about red velvet, space cake, and getting high!
Some recipes are easier than others. Cooking coconut weed pudding is almost child’s play, whereas a red velvet cannabis cake takes a wee bit more effort.
But in the art and science of making edibles, practice makes perfect! And no matter how “child’s play” it is, you probably shouldn’t cook up these desserts with your kids.
What flavor is red velvet cake?
Red velvet cake has a unique flavor, combining the slight tang of buttermilk with a more acidic unprocessed cocoa flavor profile (as opposed to more standard chocolate cake ingredients). Red velvet isn’t as rich as a chocolate cake. Instead, it’s a subtle chocolate taste balanced by the creamy sweetness of cream cheese frosting and further complemented by an irresistible moistness.
What makes red velvet cake red?
The red velvet cake’s eponymous red hue traditionally comes from the chemical reaction between cocoa powder, vinegar, and buttermilk. However, most modern recipes add red food coloring to amplify its signature crimson tone. Omitting the red food coloring for a more authentic and au naturale red velvet cake is entirely up to you!
How do you make a space cake?
Before you can proceed with baking a weed cake, you’ll first need to prepare some cannabutter or canna-oil (i.e., butter or oil that has been infused with THC). There are a number of ways to approach this, but if you’ll be cooking with cannabis even semi-regularly, I would strongly suggest purchasing a weed infuser. These gadgets are, in my opinion, the BEST way to make cannabutter if you want fast and effective results. They make preparing cannabutter, canna-oil, and other THC-infused ingredients and tinctures a lighting-fast process with very minimal cleanup – two thumbs up!
How long is the space cake high?
The high from a space cake and other cannabis edibles can last anywhere from 4 to 8 hours, though this is highly dependent on the dosage and your individual tolerance. Edibles typically take longer to kick in than smoking or vaping – around 30 minutes to 2 hours for the onset – and the effects are more prolonged too!
The Origins of Red Velvet Cake: Red, White, and Bangin’
Rich and vibrant in flavor and history alike, red velvet cake has had a starry (and stripey) rise to fame rooted in 20th-century All-American cultural expansions. Though this delectable dessert can trace its origins to early 19th-century Victorian-era cakes, it wasn’t until the 1920s that red velvet cake gained widespread acclaim. This was all thanks to the famous Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City.
This hotel, in itself another staple of New York’s decorated cultural history, claims to be the birthplace of the crimson confectionary hero that sparked a nationwide craze. They reinvented the red velvet cake’s recipe with its now famous “velvety” texture and released it to The Big Apple’s social elite.
But from the red velvet cake recipe’s history as a boutique dessert came its transformation into a household American go-to. In the 1940s, the Adams Extract Company introduced red food coloring to the red velvet recipe and released a simple and easy-to-follow recipe to the public. This cemented the iconic dessert as an accessible and decorative statement to add flair to any celebratory event.
Today, red velvet cake is a beloved dessert for all kinds of celebrations! It’s known for its tangy yet sweet flavor, silky texture, and eye-catching color. Weddings, birthdays, or just because: red velvet cake continues to enchant with its unique charm and flavor profile.
And Then We Added Weed!
Tips for baking red velvet cake number one through ten: add pot.
We took the iconic dessert and made it so you can get high on this shizz. You’re WELCOME!
Baking a red velvet space cake really isn’t all that hard. And the end result is an All-American 420 dessert recipe exuding patriotism and stained red with the blood of those no-good commie bastards. Take that, China!
Jokes aside, red velvet cake isn’t the most straightforward recipe for beginner cannabis chefs. For an easier tang-meets-sweet dish, newbies will find other options to sharpen their skills first. (I hear orange-glazed cannabis cranberry bread makes for an equally dope afternoon snack.)
But, if you’re dressing to impress your sesh-buddies, red velvet space cake lands the shuttle every time. Give it a try, let us know your thoughts and recipe tweaks in the comments down below, and remember…
