Red Velvet Cake

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This is a beautiful cake and very good to serve at Christmas time.  It tastes good too. - Aunt Bessie

1/2 cup Crisco
2 eggs
2 oz red food coloring
1/ & 1/2 cups cake flour
1 tbsp vinegar
1 tsp vanilla

1 & 1/2 c sugar
2 tbsp cocoa
1 tsp salt
1 c buttermilk
1 & 1/2 tsp baking soda

Cake Ingredients & Instructions:

1. Cream Crisco, sugar, and eggs.
2. Make a paste of food coloring and cocoa; add to creamed mixture.
3. Mix salt, vanilla, and milk; add alternately with the flour.
4. Mix soda and vinegar in a small cup, then fold into mixture.  (DO NOT BEAT.)
5. Pour into two 9-inch cake pans.
6. Bake for 30 minutes at 350 degrees.

Icing Ingredients & Instructions:
5 tbsp flour
1 c milk
1 c butter

1 c sugar
1 tbsp vanilla

1. 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.
2. Cream butter, sugar, and vanilla together.  Add in the cold flour & milk mixture and beat until it looks like whipped cream.