Red Velvet Cake

Ingredients

• 2 cups sugar
• 2 eggs
• l cup butter or margarine
• 2 + cups cake flour
• l tbsp. vinegar
• 1 tbsp. cocoa
• 15 tsp. soda
• + tsp. salt
• l tsp. vanilla
• 2oz. red cake color
• 1 cup buttermilk

Method

1. 1

   Cream sugar and butter, add eggs, beat well until fluffy.

2. 2

   Make a paste of vinegar and cocoa; add to mixture.

3. 3

   Sift flour, soda, salt alternately with milk.

4. 4

   Add vanilla and coloring.

5. 5

   Bake in three 9 inch pans greased and lined with wax paper.

6. 6

   Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Recipes from our hearth (1960) by N.C.) Advent Moravian Church (Winston-Salem, page 11. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

RED VELVET CAKE 2 cups sugar 2 eggs l cup butter or margarine 2 + cups cake flour l tbsp. vinegar 1 tbsp. cocoa 15 tsp. soda + tsp. salt l tsp. vanilla 2oz. red cake color 1 cup buttermilk

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