The Red Velvet Cake recipe
Prep: 25 mins, Cook: 30 mins, Total: 1 hr 30 mins, Servings: 12.
Ingredients: sugar, shortening, eggs, red food colouring, cocoa, buttermilk, salt, vanilla extract, flour, vinegar, baking soda.
Icing: milk, flour, sugar, butter, vanilla extract.
Preheat oven to 350°F, grease two 9-inch pans.
Cream sugar and shortening, add eggs, mix red colour-cocoa paste, alternate with buttermilk and flour.
Bake 30 mins, cool, and make icing by heating milk-flour, beating with sugar, butter, and vanilla.
Frost cooled cake layers