Cake: Waldorf Astoria "Red Velvet Cake" Recipe
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Ingredients: ½ cup Crisco shortening
1½ cups sugar
2 eggs
2 ounces of red food coloring
2 heaping Tablespoons cocoa
1 cup buttermilk
2¼ cup all purpose flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 Tablespoon vinegar
1 teaspoon baking soda
Frosting:
*Use cream cheese frosting
or
Ermine frosting from Waldorf Astoria:
6 Tablespoons flour
2 cups milk
1 cup butter
2 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups powdered sugar
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Directions:Cake:
Cream crisco and sugar until fluffy, add eggs. Make paste of cocoa and flood coloring, add to above mixture. Add alternately buttermilk and flour with salt. Add vanilla. blend vinegar and soda and fold into above. Bake in 3 round greased and floured cake pans. Bake at 350º about 25 minutes.
Ermine Frosting:
Cook flour and milk to paste. Cool. Cream powdered sugar and butter with vanilla. Beat butter, vanilla, and powdered sugar. Add cooked mixture of flour and milk. Beat very hard until thick like whipped cream. Spread over baked and cooled cake layers.
Keep refrigerated. ( Can use Cream Cheese Frosting). |
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Notes: From notes this cake recipe is from her friend Joyce Greathouse, Larned, Kansas, 1950's. Pretty cake for Christmas.
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