Red Velvet Cake & Butter Cream Icing
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Red Velvet Cake/Butter Cream Icing
This is the ORIGINAL
RED VELVET CAKE RECIPE from the 1940's. Don't bother with any
other you see online. Also
this frosting is no fail. It may take a while to beat it to whipped cream
consistency but it's well worth it. Make this gorgeous red cake with white
icing even more festive for Christmas with the addition of green sugar
sprinkles on the top!
This cake brings back a lot of memories for me. My first recollections
of it are in the mid 60's. Every year my sister, brother and I couldn't
wait to get to MomMom and PopPop's for our birthday's because we knew
that we'd have this Red Velvet Cake waiting for us. It's a beautiful and
impressive cake.
MomMom's Red Velvet Cake
1/2 cup crisco
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 eggs
2 oz red food coloring -2 bottles! (don't skimp on the food coloring
or the cake will be dry)
2 heaping tablespoons cocoa
1 teaspoon salt
2 1/4 cups sifted cake flour
1 cup buttermilk
1 teaspoon white vinegar
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon baking soda
Cream crisco and sugar. Add eggs one at a time and beat for 30 seconds. Add cocoa and red food coloring, mix. Add flour, salt and buttermilk, mix. Remove batter from mixer. Sprinkle with baking soda, pour vinegar over batter and add vanilla. Stir. DO NOT BEAT - (don't over stir - it can make the cake tough). Pour batter into 2 - 9 inch cake pans. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 min.
MomMom's Butter Cream Icing
2 tablespoons cornstarch or
4 tablespoons flour
1 cup whole milk
1 cup butter
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla
Mix cornstarch (or flour) with milk. Cook until thick, whisking the entire time. Set aside to cool. Cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Add vanilla and cooked cornstarch mixture slowly. Beat until it feels like whipped cream.
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