Mom's Oops-Tastic Red Velvet Cake
- Ready In:
- 1hr 25mins
- Ingredients:
- 14
- Yields:
-
1 cake
- Serves:
- 12-15
ingredients
-
CAKE
- 1 1⁄2 cups sugar
- 1 cup vegetable oil
- 2 eggs
- 2 1⁄4 cups sifted cake flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 teaspoon table salt
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 (1 ounce) bottles red food coloring
- 1 tablespoon white vinegar
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FROSTING
- 1 (16 ounce) box powdered sugar
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
- 1⁄2 cup margarine, softened
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
- Cream sugar and oil.
- Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each.
- Sift flour three times (re-measure flour to get 2 1/4 cups after sifting -- flour seems to grow after it's been sifted); add salt and baking soda to dry mixture.
- Add 1/4 of flour and 1/4 of buttermilk to mixture. Beat well.
- Repeat until all is incorporated.
- Add vanilla and vinegar; beat well.
- Slowly add food coloring, stirring by hand until well mixed.
- Pour into three greased and floured (or just use the cooking spray designed for baking) 8-inch pans.
- Bake 21-25 minutes, or until sides begin to pull away from pan; cool thoroughly on wire rack.
- For frosting: cream together the margarine and cream cheese.
- Gradually add the box of powdered sugar.
- Add vanilla and mix well.
- Spread evenly over cooled cake layers.
- NOTE: This amount of frosting is a little sparse for me. I usually make an additional half batch to frost the cake. Hope you enjoy!
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a few years ago after having recently married my beautiful husband, i quit the job i'd had for four years (hated that place!). i spent the next two years being a housewife. it was an adjustment, but i loved the time i had to be in the kitchen and try new things. i was terrible at baking before i quit my job. afterwards, i made it my personal goal to keep on churning out those awful, dry cakes and brick-like cookies until i could do it right! i'm happy to report that i'm totally there. thanks to all the tricks and tips i've learned on 'zaar, i'm quite the baker now. : ) can you believe that people actually PAY me to bake my treats for them? it blows my mind! now i'm the shop manager for a hair and tanning salon, and i absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE my job. i work part-time so i still have time to do my baking and also try out different recipes for dinner all the time.
when it's warm outside, my husband and i spend lots of time at the savannah river fishing and hanging out. and like the true southerners we are, we love football and racing! my favorite cook of all time is definitely paula deen. i completely identify with the type of food she grew up on and still prepares today. oh, how i'd love to meet her.....
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