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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Tasty Tuesdays - Easy Red Velvet Cake

Adam's grandmother has this delicious recipe for red velvet cake made from scratch.  Recently, however, Adam found a way to make the cake that is much simpler - and I modified it to make it much richer so that it is nearly impossible to tell the difference between this recipe and his grandmother's. 

Ingredients
-One box of white cake mix
-The ingredients indicated on the cake mix (mine called for 3 egg whites, oil, and water)
-Buttermilk
-Cocoa
-1 oz. bottle of red food coloring

Directions

1.  Mix together the white cake mix as directed on the box - replace the water (or milk - depending on the brand of cake mix you get) - with 1/2 buttermilk, 1/2 water/milk (my recipe called for 1 1/2 c. water - so I did 3/4 c. buttermilk and 3/4 c. of water).

2.  Set cake batter aside.

3.  Mix 2 Tbsp. of cocoa with the 1 oz. of red food coloring - once bottle is emptied, fill with water and add to cocoa mixture.

4.  Combine cocoa mixture with cake batter.

5.  Divide equally into 2 round, greased and floured, cake pans - bake as directed on the cake mix box.

6.  Once baked, removed from oven and let cool before removing from pans.

Now the icing is what really makes this cake special - so I can't really leave the icing recipe out of this post.  So here it is:

Red Velvet Cake Icing

Ingredients

1 1/2 c. milk
2 Tbsp. cornstarch
1 tsp. vanilla
1 1/2 c. granulated sugar
a generous 1 c. of shortening (close to 1 1/2 - gotta love grandma's recipes)

Directions

1.  Whisk together milk and cornstarch in a small pot over heat until thickened (usually takes bringing it to a boil to make it thicken) - add vanilla.

2.  Chill in the refrigerator until it forms into a gelatin.

3.  In a large boil, mix together granulated sugar and shortening until creamy - add gelatin and mix thoroughly.

Now all you have to do is frost your cake generously!

Enjoy! 
Yuuummm...






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