heartbreak and red velvet cake

what do i do when my heart is broken? i bake a cake.

i'd been searching the city high and low to find buttermilk because the giant near me stopped selling it a month ago. why would you ever stop selling buttermilk??? how are your customers supposed to make red velvet cake? whole foods stocked it, but of course it cost twice as much as it would at a normal grocery store. but alas, none of this matters when you're sad.

so cake was baked this saturday. it's a red velvet cake without the red, because honestly what's the point of adding red food coloring? when the cake came out, it was pretty moist. unfortunately i never felt up to making the cream cheese frosting (with raspberry flavoring to go with the chocolate flavor of the cake) until monday, so the cake ended up being a little dry. as you can see, i'm not that great at frosting cakes. the frosting was tasty, but looked like mush. i sprinkled a little bit of coconut on top.

tasty, but i suppose its flawed state reflects my current mood