CAKE
1/2 c Crisco 1 1/2 c Sugar
2 ea Egggs 2 c Swans Down cake flour
1 tb Cocoa 1 ts Salt
1 c Buttermilk 2 oz Red food coloring
1/2 ts Vanilla concentrate 1/2 ts Almond flavoring
1 ts Baking soda 1 tb Vinegar
-RED VELVET ICING-
1 c Milk 1/2 c Crisco
1/4 c Clour 1/4 lb Oleo
Dash of salt 1 c Sugar
1 ts Vanilla 1 ts Almond flavoring
Desugared Oreo cookies
Cream Crisco, sugar and eggs. Sift cake flour, cocoa and salt
together 3 times. Add alternately with buttermilk to Crisco mixture.
Add food coloring, flavoring and soda mixed with vinegar. Pour into
greased and floured 8 or 9″ layer pans, or 9 x 12 x 2″ sheet cake pan
and bake at 350 for 25 to 30 minutes. Test for doneness. Cool and
ice with:
RED VELVET ICING: Cook milk, flour and salt over low flame to
pudding stage. Cool in refrigerator. Cream Crisco, oleo and sugar.
Add flavorings. Add mixture to cooled pudding mix. Beat until
smooth. Add desugared, crumbled Oreo cookies. Spread between layers
and then ice thickly on the top and sides of cake. Refrigerate until
ready for special occasion. YUM!! YUM!!
Yields
1 cake