Red velvet cake [Cooking]

I ate red velvet cake a fair amount as a kid, so it was a bit nostalgic to make one of my own for the first time. I used a random online recipe and the result was good but not great. My hunch is that it cooked a bit too long. Following the recipe was easy enough. I used cake flour as recommended, and tried to be careful not to over-mix it. I skipped the optional hot coffee. I baked the cake in two dark 9" pans. I initially put it in for 30 minutes, then added another 2 minutes when a toothpick still came out a bit wet. I am not usually a very good judge of when something is done in the oven, and I suspect those 2 minutes may have been a mistake. After 10ish minutes of cooling, getting the cake out of the pans was easy thanks to generous greasing with butter and a parchment paper lining on the bottom. Once it was fully cooled, I frosted the cake using the included cream cheese frosting recipe. I am not particularly skilled at spreading frosting beautifully, but I thought it turned out…