This is a beautiful cake and very good to serve at Christmas time. It tastes good too. - Aunt Bessie |
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Ingredients
1 & 1/2 cups sugar 2 tbsp cocoa 1 tsp salt 1 cups buttermilk 1 & 1/2 tsp baking soda 1/2 cup Crisco 2 eggs 2 oz red food coloring 1/ & 1/2 cups cake flour 1 tbsp vinegar 1 tsp vanilla |
Cake Steps
- Cream Crisco, sugar, and eggs.
- Make a paste of food coloring and cocoa; add to creamed mixture.
- Mix salt, vanilla, and milk; add alternately with the flour.
- Mix soda and vinegar in a small cup, then fold into mixture. (DO NOT BEAT.)
- Pour into two 9-inch cake pans.
- Bake for 30 minutes at 350 degrees.
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Icing Ingredients & Steps
5 tbsp flour 1 cup milk 1 cup butter |
1 cup sugar 1 tbsp vanilla |
- Cook flour and milk in a small saucepan on low heat, stirring constantly to make a soft paste. Remove from heat and let mixture get completely cold.
- Cream butter, sugar, and vanilla together. Add in the cold flour & milk mixture and beat until it looks like whipped cream.
