1/2 c Shortening
1 1/2 c Sugar
1/4 c Red food coloring
2 tb (Heaping) Cocoa
1 c Buttermilk
2 1/4 c Cake flour
1 ts Vanilla
1 ts Salt
1 ts Baking soda
1 ts Vinegar
2 Eggs
Frosting:
3 tb Flour
1 c Milk
1 c Sugar
1 ts Vanilla
1 c Butter, Must be Butter
Cream shortening, sugar and eggs. Make a paste of food coloring and
cocoa. Add to creamed mixture. Add buttermilk alternating with flour
and salt. Add vanilla. Add soda to vinegar (foams!!!), Blend in..
Pour into 3 or 4 greased and floured 8″ cake pans. Bake at 350 24-30
minutes. Split layers fill and frost with the following frosting.
FROSTING Add milk to flour slowly, avoid lumps. Cook flour and milk
’til very thick, stirring constantly. COOL!! Cream sugar, butter and
vanilla ’til fluffy. Add to cooked mixture. Beat, high speed, ’til
very fluffy. Looks and tastes like whipped cream.
Yields
6 Servings