Red Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Everyone always wants mine and Mom's Red Velvet Cake recipe and we always tell them it is no secret so after a few requests today I am going to post the recipe for everyone! This is a great recipe and I swear once you have a homemade Red Velvet cake you will never want to eat a store bought or frozen one again! LoL Mom and I have used this recipe to make layered cakes and cupcakes and it works great for both. If I am baking for people why do not like pecans I prefer to make cupcakes so I can top them with different toppings (usually pecans and red sprinkles) but if I know that everyone that I am cooking for will eat pecans I love to make the layered cake because it looks so pretty!

Red Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting:

Ingredients:

Cake

• 1 ½ cup sugar
• 2 cup Crisco oil
• 2 eggs
• 2 ½ cups plain sifted flour
• 1 tsp salt 
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 oz red food coloring
• 1 tsp vinegar
• 2 tsp cocoa
• 1 tsp vanilla flavoring
• 1 cup buttermilk

Cream Cheese Icing

• 1 stick butter or margarine (room temp.)
• 1 (8oz) pkg. cream cheese (room temp.)
• 1 box confectioners sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla flavoring
• ½ to 1 cup chopped pecans

Instructions: 

1. Preheat oven to 350.
2. Cream sugar and oil; add eggs. Beat well. (Make sure the cream and oil is creamed!)
3. Sift together flour, salt, and soda; set aside.
4. Add food coloring, vinegar, and cocoa to the sugar and oil mixture. Add vanilla flavoring.
5. Add flour mixture alternately with buttermilk; blend well. (Make sure you do not skip this step. If you do not alternate the flour mixture and buttermilk it sometimes does not come out the same for some reason.)
6. Pour batter into 3 round cake pans or can use 1 sheet cake pan. (If making a layer cake line the bottom of the round pans with parchment paper and grease the pans so you can insure your cakes come out of the pans cleanly.)
7. Bake for about 35 minutes. Let layers cool after baking.
8. For icing: Beat together butter and cream cheese. Add sugar and vanilla flavoring. Add nuts if desired.

I make cupcakes with this recipe all the time. This recipe will make like 3 dozen cupcakes and they will probably need to cook between 15 and 20 minutes. 


I hope everyone enjoys this recipe!!!!