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Granny’s Famous Red Velvet Cake Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
Cake:
2 ½ cups All-purpose flour
1 cup Buttermilk
2 cups Crisco oil
1 ½ cup Sugar
1 Tbsp. Cocoa
1 1-oz. Bottle red food coloring
2 eggs
1 tsp. Vanilla
1 tsp. Salt
1 tsp. Baking soda
1 tsp. Vinegar

Icing:
1 Stick butter
1 box (1 lb.) Confectioners' sugar
1 8-oz. package Cream cheese
1 tsp. Vanilla
1 cup Chopped pecans
Directions:
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350º. Grease and flour pan(s).
Cream together sugar and eggs.
Mix together all dry ingredients and add alternately with buttermilk to sugar and eggs. Add Crisco oil, food coloring, and vinegar.
Bake layers for 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool completely on wire racks.
Cream together butter and confectioners' sugar, slowly adding vanilla and pecans.
Mix well. Frost layers.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
This recipe has been handed down through our family, most recently to me by my grandmother.

 

 

 

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