Red Velvet Cake Recipe
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Ingredients: Cake:
1/2 c. butter, softened
1 1/2 c.sugar
2 eggs
1/4 c. red food color (2 oz)
1 1/2 T cocoa
1 c. buttermilk
2 1/2 c. flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp baking soda
1 T white vinegar
Frosting
5 T flour
1/2 lb butter softened
1 c. milk
1 c. powdered sugar
1 tsp vanilla
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Directions:Cake:
Cream butter and sugar. Add eggs and beat well. Make a paste of food color and cocoa. Add to butter mixture. Add flour and salt alternately with buttermilk. Add vanilla. Mix soda and vinegar and fold in. Bake in 3 greased round 9" cake pans at 350 degrees for 20-25 minutes. Cool 5 minutes and tip out of pans onto cooling racks.
Frosting:
Warm milk in a saucepan and whisk in flour over the heat until it makes a paste like heavy starch. Cool. Add sugar and vanilla to paste. Beat paste into butter to a whip cream texture. Spread between cooled layers and on cake top |
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Notes: This has been Kevin's birthday cake every year since he was young. I finally simplified this recipe this year and it worked perfectly. Instead of making a paste with the food coloring and cocoa (such a messy production) and mixing the vinegar and baking soda separately I added the cocoa and the baking soda into the dry ingredients and whisked them together well. Then I put the red food coloring and vinegar in with the creamed butter, sugar and eggs. I wondered if not having the baking soda and vinegar fizzing up together would affect the rise but it was fine.
As a second note, I am usually too cheap to put in two bottles of red food coloring so I put in one and then fill the empty bottle with water and use the pink water for my second "bottle"...still comes out red.
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