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Here u go, took me awhile to find my recipe file in the box jungle! this is Mamma's (ur great, great, grandmother's }...Red Velvet Cake:, VIA Dovie Smith:
- 1/2 C Shorting (crisco,hard, not oil)
- 1& 1/2 C Sugar
- 2 Eggs
- 1 tsp Adams best Vanilla
- 1 tsp Adams Best Butter Flavor
- 1 oz. (2 1/2 oz. bottles) Adams Red Food colors
- 3 Tbls (leveled)Cocoa (hersery in the dark br can)
- 2&1/2 C sifted swan down cake flour
- 1 C Buttermilk
- 1 tsp Salt
- 1Tbsp White Vinegar
- 1 tsp Baking Soda.
Cream crisco,sugar,eggs,flovors. To one side make a paste of cocoa and food coloring, now add to first mixture. Alternalty: add floor and buttermilk,(just add buttermilk slowly, or u will run out to soon, keep mixture moist to keep from geting a face full of flour!:)) AGAIN, to one side mix soda and vinergar,(use a good size bowl, remember ur chem lad, this is going to boil up). now add this to the cake batter,folding in. This recipe is suppose to make 3 layers, mine are always a little short?, so just try to make them as even as u can, to prepare the cake pans, u have to coat the bottom with crisco,cut wax paper and place in the bottom of the cake pans,then coat wax paper with crisco,again, and then dust with flour, then pour in cake batter. Cook at 350 degrees for 15-25 mins. until a toothpick comes out clean
NO cook Icing for Red Velvet Cake: (DOUBLE THIS ,1 IS NOT ENOUGH)
1LB POWERED SUGAR
1/2 C CRISCO
1TBSP Adams Best Vanilla
1/4 tsp Salt
5 TBSP (1/3 C) MILK
COMBINE:sifted powered sugar, BLEND WELL: about 1/2 the sugar and crisco, flavors and salt. Alternately add the rest of the sugar and enough milk to make a smooth, spredable icing, (add last 1/2 milk slowly so u don't get it to thin, or add a tsp more to make it right, be sure it it not to thin or it will run off the cake.
lov auntie,, bon apitite!
****************************************************Special Thanks to my Aunt for taking the time to look-up this recipe & type it out for me.Much hugs and kisses!
Cream crisco,sugar,eggs,flovors. To one side make a paste of cocoa and food coloring, now add to first mixture. Alternalty: add floor and buttermilk,(just add buttermilk slowly, or u will run out to soon, keep mixture moist to keep from geting a face full of flour!:)) AGAIN, to one side mix soda and vinergar,(use a good size bowl, remember ur chem lad, this is going to boil up). now add this to the cake batter,folding in. This recipe is suppose to make 3 layers, mine are always a little short?, so just try to make them as even as u can, to prepare the cake pans, u have to coat the bottom with crisco,cut wax paper and place in the bottom of the cake pans,then coat wax paper with crisco,again, and then dust with flour, then pour in cake batter. Cook at 350 degrees for 15-25 mins. until a toothpick comes out clean
NO cook Icing for Red Velvet Cake: (DOUBLE THIS ,1 IS NOT ENOUGH)
1LB POWERED SUGAR
1/2 C CRISCO
1TBSP Adams Best Vanilla
1/4 tsp Salt
5 TBSP (1/3 C) MILK
COMBINE:sifted powered sugar, BLEND WELL: about 1/2 the sugar and crisco, flavors and salt. Alternately add the rest of the sugar and enough milk to make a smooth, spredable icing, (add last 1/2 milk slowly so u don't get it to thin, or add a tsp more to make it right, be sure it it not to thin or it will run off the cake.
lov auntie,, bon apitite!
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Special Thanks to my Aunt for taking the time to look-up this recipe & type it out for me.
Much hugs and kisses!
