Bria's Red Velvet Cake
- Ready In:
- 1hr
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Yields:
-
1 cake
- Serves:
- 12
ingredients
- 1⁄2 cup shortening
- 1 1⁄2 cups sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 eggs
- 2 cups cake flour
- 1 teaspoon cocoa
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon vinegar
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- red food coloring
- 2 (10 ounce) cans buttercream frosting
directions
- Preheat 350.
- Cream shortening and sugar.
- Add vanilla, eggs, cream well.
- Sift and measure cake flour with cocoa, sift 3 times. Add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk.
- Beat in desired amount of food coloring.
- Fold in soda and vinegar.
- Bake in two greased and floured 9 inch cake pans.
- Bake 30 minutes or until knife comes out clean.
- Let cool on wire rack.
- Freeze for two hours.
- Take out frozen pans and cut each round in half, resulting in 4 cake layers.
- Brush off crumbs from cakes with brush, frost and assemble.
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<p>I am a happily married woman with a small apartment with a tiny kitchen...but I love our quaint space in an old house! Hubs is in IT and I do administrative work and go to school full time. I need stuff that's quick and cheap to make!</p>