Recipe: Tasty Red Velvet Cake

Red Velvet Cake.

You can have Red Velvet Cake using 11 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Red Velvet Cake

1. It's 3 cup of sugar.
2. You need 5 of eggs.
3. It's 2 tsp of vanilla extract.
4. You need 1 1/2 cup of Crisco.
5. Prepare 2 tsp of vinegar.
6. Prepare 1/3 cup of Cocoa.
7. Prepare 3 cup of All purpose flour.
8. Prepare 1 tsp of baking powder.
9. It's 1/4 tsp of salt.
10. You need 1 cup of sour cream.
11. It's 2 oz of Red food color.

Red Velvet Cake step by step

1. Preheat oven to 350°.
2. Cream together Crisco, eggs, vanilla, sugar.
3. Blend in vinegar, cocoa & red food color.
4. Mix together flour, salt & baking powder.
5. Add one cup of flour mixture & mix 1 minute.
6. Next add cup of sour cream, mix one minute.
7. Add last cup of flour & mix until everything is blended - scrape down sides of bowl.
8. Grease & flour a bundt pan. Add mixture & bake for 1 hour to 1 hour 10 minutes depending on oven.
9. Remove from oven & let cool for 10 minutes.
10. Invert onto cake plate. Once cool, drizzle with cream cheese frosting.
11. Frosting: Mix together 1 stick of butter, 1 block of cream cheese, 1 box of powdered sugar & 2 tsp of vanilla extract. Pecans optional..