* Crossposted from: National Cooking Echo
MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.05
 
      Title: ORIGINAL RED VELVET CAKE WITH FROSTING
 Categories: Cakes, Frost/filli
      Yield: 8 Servings
 
MMMMM----------------------------CAKE---------------------------------
    1/2 c  Butter
  1 1/2 c  Sugar
      2    Eggs
      2 tb Cocoa
      2 oz Red Food Coloring
      1 ts Vanilla
      1 ts Salt
      1 c  Buttermilk
      2 c  Flour
      1 tb Vinegar
      1 ts Baking Soda
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      1 c  Milk
      5 tb Flour
      1 c  Butter
      1 c  Sugar
      1 ts Vanilla
 
  CAKE: Cream together butter, sugar and eggs. Make a paste of cocoa
  and food coloring. Add the paste to the creamed mixture. Mix salt and
  vanilla in buttermilk and add a;ternately with the flour. Mix soda
  and vinegar separately, add last, folding in. DO NOT BEAT after
  adding soda mixture. Bake at 350~ for 30 minutes. ICING: Boil
  together milk and flour until thickened. Let stand until cool. Cream
  together butter, sugar amd vanilla. Add milk and flour mix and beat
  very well. (The longer you beat it the better it gets)
 
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MMMMM----- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.05
 
      Title: RED VELVET CAKE  #1
 Categories: Cakes
      Yield: 1 Servings
 
MMMMM----------------------------CAKE---------------------------------
  1 1/2 c  Sugar
    1/2 c  Shortening
      2    Eggs
      2 oz Red Food Color
      1 tb Cocoa
      1 ts Vanilla
  2 1/4 c  Flour
      1 ts Salt
      1 ts Soda
      1 c  Buttermilk
      1 ts Vinegar
MMMMM----------------CREAM CHEESE ICING FOR RED V---------------------
      1    Stick Margarine or Butter
      1 lb 10x Powdered Sugar
      8 oz Cream Cheese (Room
           Temperature)
      1 ts Vanilla
 
  Cream Shortening and Sugar.  Add Eggs.  Mix Cocoa and Food Color in a
  Cup. Add to Mixture.  Add Vanilla.  Sift Flour and Salt Together. Add
  to Mixture Alternately with Buttermilk.   Fold in Soda and Vinegar.
  Bake in 3 Layers at 325 Degrees for 30 Minutes or until Done. Frost
  with Cream Cheese Icing.
  
  Cream Cheese Icing for Red Velvet Cake
  
  Cream Butter and Cream Cheese until Fluffy.  Slowly Add Powdered Sugar
  While Continuing to Beat.  Add Vanilla
  
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... Sincerely yours Gigi
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