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Red Velvet Cake
 
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Prep Time: 0 Minutes
Cook Time: 20 Minutes
Ready In: 20 Minutes
Servings: 14
Here is a delicious cake with a wonderful cream cheese frosting - what a flavour!!
Ingredients:
1/2 cup shortening
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 tablespoon butter flavoring
1 full bottle red food coloring (1/2 oz)
3 tablespoons cocoa
2 1/2 cups sifted cake flour
1 cup buttermilk
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon vinegar
1 teaspoon baking soda
cream cheese frosting, to cover 3 layers
1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese
1/2 cup butter or 1/2 cup margarine
1 lb confectioners' sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
Directions:
1. Cream shortening, sugar, eggs and flavors. Make a paste of coca and food coloring. Add to first mixture. Adternately add flour nad buttermilk and continue to mix. In small boewl, mix baking sdoda nad vinegr, then add to batter, blend. Bake in three 9-inch pans for 20-25 minutes at 350°F Let cool completely.
2. CREAM CHEESE ICING:.
3. Combine all ingredients and beat to blend. Cover the top of two cakes and stack on top of each other. Place the third cake on top, then complete cake by frosting sides and top.
By RecipeOfHealth.com