{"id":352,"date":"2011-04-23T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-23T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/?p=352"},"modified":"2011-04-23T14:10:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-23T14:10:00","slug":"red-velvet-cake-with-cream-cheese-frosting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/?p=352","title":{"rendered":"Red Velvet Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting"},"content":{"rendered":"
My daughter made a Red Velvet cake last tonight.\u00a0 Bless her little cotton pickin’ heart…..<\/div>\n
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\nRed Velvet Cake<\/b><\/p>\n
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1C. shortening<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
1-3\/4C. sugar<\/div>\n
2-1\/2C. cake flour<\/div>\n
3\/4 tsp. salt<\/div>\n
2 large eggs<\/div>\n
1C. buttermilk<\/div>\n
1tsp. vanilla<\/div>\n
1tsp. baking soda<\/div>\n
1-1\/2tsp. vinegar<\/div>\n
2tsp. red food coloring<\/div>\n
3tsp. cocoa powder<\/div>\n
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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.\u00a0 Spray two 10″ cake pans with non-stick spray.\u00a0 In a mixing bowl, blend the shortening and sugar with an electric mixer.\u00a0 In another bowl, sift together the flour and salt. In a third bowl, mix the eggs, buttermilk, vanilla, baking soda, and vinegar.\u00a0 Alternately add the flour mixture and the buttemrilk mixture to the shortening mixture, mixing after each addition.\u00a0 In a small bowl, mix the food coloring with the cocoa.\u00a0 Add the cocoa mixture to the mixing bowl and blend till just combined.\u00a0 Pour the batter into the cake pans and bake for 25 minutes or till toothpick comes out clean.\u00a0 Cool completely before frosting.<\/div>\n
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Cream Cheese Frosting:<\/div>\n
1 – 8oz package of cream cheese, plus 1\/2 of an 8oz package (12oz total)<\/div>\n
3\/4C. butter, softened<\/div>\n
1-1\/2 lbs. powdered sugar<\/div>\n
2tsp. vanilla<\/div>\n
In a mixing bowl, mix the cream cheese with the powdered sugar until smooth.\u00a0 Add the vanilla and mix well.<\/div>\n
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Somehow, I felt compelled to show you this……….<\/div>\n

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My daughter made a Red Velvet cake last tonight.\u00a0 Bless her little cotton pickin’ heart….. Red Velvet Cake 1C. shortening 1-3\/4C. sugar 2-1\/2C. cake flour 3\/4 tsp. salt 2 large eggs 1C. buttermilk 1tsp. vanilla 1tsp. baking soda 1-1\/2tsp. vinegar 2tsp. red food coloring 3tsp. cocoa powder Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.\u00a0 Spray two<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frugalchicks.nwlens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}