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Red Velvet Cake

List of Ingredients


Red Velvet Cake
source: Chocolate Lovers Cookbook

1 oz. red food coloring
3 tbsp. cocoa
1/2 cup shortening (Crisco® recommended)
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs
2 1/4 cups cake flour
1 cup buttermilk
1/4 tsp. salt
1 1/2 tsp. vanilla
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tbsp. vinegar




Frosting:
1/2 cup butter or margarine, room temperature
1 (8 oz.) pkg. cream cheese, room temperature
3 to 4 cups powdered sugar, to spreading consistency
1 cup pecans, optional





Recipe




Preheat to 350.

Mix food coloring and cocoa together to form a paste.

Cream the shortening, sugar and eggs together. Add to paste.

Sift cake flour 3 times – important. Combine the cake flour and salt.

Alternate adding the flour/salt mixture and the buttermilk to the creamed mixture, beginning and
ending with the dry
ingredients. Mix well between each addition. Add vanilla.
Combine the vinegar and baking soda, gently mixing by hand. Add to the mixture and stir.
Bake in 2 round pans for 30 minutes at 350.
Allow to cool completely before frosting.

Frosting:


Cream together butter and cream cheese. Add sugar and blend to spreading consistency. Add
pecans, if desired.

Spread on cooled cake.


This is a favorite and usually my DH's request for his birthday cake.