Cakes, Desserts

Red Velvet Cake

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Red Velvet Cake
 
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Recipe type: Dessert
Cuisine: American
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Ingredients
  • Red Velvet Cake
  • 2 Cups Cake Flour
  • ½ Cup Crisco Shortening
  • 1½ Cups Sugar
  • 1 Cup Buttermilk
  • 2 Eggs
  • 2 Tsp Cocoa
  • 2 Tsp Baking Soda
  • 1 Tsp Kosher Salt
  • 1 Tsp Vanilla
  • 1 Tsp Vinegar
  • 2 oz Red Food Coloring
  • Cream Cheese Frosting
  • 8 oz Cream Cheese
  • 1 lb Powdered Sugar
  • 1 Stick Butter
  • 1 Tsp Vanilla
  • 1 Cup Pecans, chopped
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees
  2. Red Velvet Cake
  3. Cream shortening and sugar
  4. Add eggs, one at a time, mixing well after each
  5. Add red food coloring and mix well
  6. Combine and sift cocoa, salt and cake flour
  7. Add alternately with buttermilk to cream mixture, mixing well
  8. Combine vinegar and baking soda
  9. Add to cream mixture with vanilla, mixing well
  10. Grease and flour (3) 8" round cake pans
  11. Pour batter evenly between all three pans
  12. Bake at 325 degrees for 30 minutes or until tooth pick comes out clean from center of cake
  13. Cool for 10 minutes in pan
  14. Turn out onto wire rack
  15. When cool, slice each layer in half making six layers
  16. Cream Cheese Frosting
  17. Cream butter and cream cheese
  18. Add powdered sugar and vanilla, beating well
  19. Mix in chopped pecans
  20. Frost Red Velvet Cake
  21. Refrigerate

 

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