10 Tips You Need When Baking The Perfect Red Velvet Cake - Chowhound

When assembling a layered red velvet cake, you'll need a stiff cream cheese frosting. Cream cheese frostings tend to be on the softer side, since it's softer than butter even when chilled, but adding extra powdered sugar will help stiffen it. If you use a frosting that is too soft, the cake won't stand upright and it will begin oozing out of the stacked layers, even if you try to chill it. If the cakes are denser…