RED VELVET CAKE

By stepjo7269

Ingredients

• Icing:
• 1 ½ C. sugar
• 1 C. crisco
• 2 eggs
• 2 + ½ C. cake flour
• 2 T. cocoa
• 2 oz. red food color
• 1 tea. salt
• 1 tea. vanilla
• 1 C. buttermilk
• 1 ½ tea. soda
• 1 T. vinegar
• ●Cream sugar & shortening. Add eggs & beat.
• ●Make a paste of cocoa & food coloring & add to sugar and egg mixture.
• ●Add soda and vinegar to buttermilk.
• ●Add salt to flour.
• ●Mix butter mixture alternately with flour.
• ●Add vanilla.
• ●Pour into cake pans and Bake @ 350 F.
• ●Add 5 T. flour to 1 cup milk and cook until thick. Let cool.
• ●Cream 1 cup butter and add 1 cup sugar.
• ●Add butter mixture to cooled flour mixture and beat.
• ●Add 1 tea. vanilla.
• ●Spread over cooled cake layers.

Preparation

Step 1

●Slice and serve.