Red velvet cake and red cake icing

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Preparation Time:

10 Min

Serves:

Difficulty:

Easy

Cost:

Main Ingredients:

See below ingredients and instructions of the recipe

Cooking Preparation of the Recipe:

1/2 c Shortening
1 1/2 c Sugar
2 Eggs
1/4 c (2 oz.) red food color
1 c Buttermilk
2 1/4 c Flour
1 ts Vanilla
2 tb Cocoa
1 ts Salt
1 ts Baking soda
1 tb Vinegar

-----------------------RED CAKE ICING----------------------------
5 tb Flour
1 c Milk
1 c Sugar
1 ts Vanilla
1 c Butter -- softened

Heat oven to 350. Grease and flour two 9" cake pans. Cream
shortening and sugar. Add eggs and continue beating hard. Make a
paste of food coloring and cocoa, add to mixture and continue to beat
hard. Add salt and flour alternately with buttermilk. Add vanilla
and beat hard. Add vinegar to soda, then BLEND into mixture (don't
beat). Pour into greased and floured cake pans and bake 20 - 30
minutes.

RED CAKE ICING: Cook flour and milk until extremely thick. Cool.
Meanwhile, cream sugar, butter, and vanilla until fluffy. When flour
and milk mixture has cooled, add to creamed ingredients and beat
until smooth.

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From: Marjorie Scofield Date: 05-27-95 (159) Fido:
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