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Sarah's Red Velvet Cake TWEAKED

Serves/Yields: One 8" or 9" round, 2-layer cake
Prep. Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 28-35 minutes
Category: Southern U.S.
Difficulty: Easy

This is a WONDERFUL red velvet cake recipe that I tweaked. The original recipe called for twice as much red food coloring, which bothered me, so I halved the amount and found the results to be exactly the same. Enjoy! Cake Central user "newlywedws" was the original source of the untweaked recipe.

2 1/2 cups cake flour
1 1/2 cups sugar
3 Tbsp baking cocoa ('natural' cocoa - not Dutch-process)
1/2 tsp salt
1 1/4 tsp baking soda
1 cup butter (do not substitute margarine)
2 whole eggs
1 ounce red food coloring
1 cup buttermilk

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Sift dry ingredients together and set aside.

Place butter and sugar in bowl of an electric mixer and beat at medium speed until well-blended. Beat in eggs one at a time. With mixer on low, very slowly add red food coloring. (Take care: it may splash.) Add vanilla. Add flour mixture alternately with buttermilk in two batches. Scrape down bowl and beat just long enough to combine.

Be aware that the red food coloring in this batter will stain!

Pour batter into pans sprayed with Pam (or prepared however you prefer to prepare cake pans).

Bake 28 to 35 minutes or until toothpick inserted into the center comes out with a few crumbs clinging to the toothpick. Cool in pan for 10 minutes, and then gently turn out onto cooling rack to cool to room temperature.

This cake tastes wonderful with cream cheese frosting as well as 7 Minute frosting. Here's a recipe for a mildly sweet frosting that goes especially well with red velvert cake.

Mary Kay Icing

1/4 c. all-purpose flour
1 c. whole milk
3/4 c. white vegetable shortening, such as Crisco
1 c. sugar
1/3 c. butter, softened
2 tsp. vanilla

In a sauce pan, add 1/4 cup of flour and 1/4 cup of milk and whisk very well until there are no lumps. Add the remaining milk and whisk until well combined. Cook over medium heat until mixture is thickened. Cool COMPLETELY.

In a mixing bowl, cream the butter, shortening, and sugar on medium speed for several minutes. Add the vanilla and mix until combined. Add the flour/milk mixture and beat on high for 5 minutes or until smooth and creamy. Spread on cooled cake.

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Contributed by: cakepro on Tuesday, April 22. 2008 at 00:28:00

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