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Red Velvet Cake #3
From the Kitchen of: Ana from Recipe Chat
| Red Velvet Cake |
| 1/2 | C | Shortening |
| 1 1/2 | C | Sugar |
| 2 | | Eggs |
| 2 | oz | Red food coloring |
| 2 | tbsp | Cocoa |
| 2 1/4 | C | Cake flour |
| 1 | tsp | Salt |
| 1 | tsp | Vanilla |
| 1 | tsp | Soda |
| 1 | C | Buttermilk |
| 1 | tbsp | Vinegar |
| 1 | tsp | Butter flavoring |
- Cream shortening, sugar, and eggs.
- Make a paste with coloring and cocoa and add to mixture.
- Add salt and flour alternately with buttermilk and vanilla. Alternately add soda and vinegar and do not beat hard, just enough to blend.
- Pour into 2 (8") floured and greased cake pans.
- Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. Cool, split layers and frost top of each layer, stacking layers as you go.
| Icing |
| 3 | tbsp | Flour |
| 1 | C | Butter |
| 1 | tsp | Vanilla |
| 1 | C | Milk |
| 1 | C | Granulated sugar |
- Cook flour and milk on low heat until thick. Cool, cream sugar, butter and vanilla until fluffy. Add to flour-milk mixture.
- Continue beating until mixture is like whipped cream.