Red Velvet Cake Recipe

A good red velvet cake recipe is like a good sale.

It can sometimes be hard to find but with a bit of time and with the right amount of searching, the results can be quite magical!

Not to mention the results can be totally well worth it.

This red velvet cake is a traditional red velvet cake recipe. It is one that I bet your grandmother might have made.

It has classic ingredients, none designed to bust the budget, has easy directions, and a resulting taste which will leave you licking you lips! Yum!

Ingredients:

Cake

• 2 1/2 cups self-rising flour
• 1 1/2 cups white sugar
• 1 cup vegetable oil
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon distilled white vinegar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 eggs
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 2 ounces red food coloring

Cream Cheese Frosting

• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
• 1/2 cup butter, softened
• 4 cups confectioners’ sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 cup chopped pecans

Directions:

1) Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour three (8 inch) round pans. In a large bowl, mix together sugar, oil, and eggs. Add food coloring and vinegar to buttermilk. Add baking soda to flour.

2) Add flour mixture and buttermilk mixtures alternately to the sugar mixture. Mix well. Stir 1 teaspoon vanilla into batter. Pour batter into prepared pans. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes, or until tester comes out clean. Remove from oven, and cool on wire racks.

3) For the cream cheese frosting, mix together cream cheese, butter or margarine, confectioners’ sugar, and vanilla. Stir in nuts. Spread over cooled cake.

This recipe is not only delicious but it is such a classic cake, especially in the southern United States, that I imagine it will soon become one of your favorites.

You too, can bake your own red velvet cake recipe and it doesn’t take a lot of work. All you need is a working kitchen, a couple hands, and a delicious red velvet cake recipe. Yum!

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