Grandma Harrison's Old Fashion Red Velvet Cake
By
Brenda Nance
@Brendanna
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This recipe was my Grandma's Great Grandmas' recipe. She made it every Christmas or if requested for our birthday. This is the only way I will eat a Red Velvet cake, it is sinfully rich and well worth the tine spent making it. Each time I make it I think of Grandma working in her kitchen with me beside her while she made it.
Ingredients
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1 Tbspvinegar
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1 Tbspcocoa
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2 csugar
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2 1/2 ccake flour
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1 bottlered food color
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1 tspbaking soda
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2 largeeggs
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1/4 tspsalt
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1 cbuttermilk
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1 can(s)sweeten coconut
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1 cbutter
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3 Tbspflour
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1 csweet milk
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1 tspvanilla extract
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1 cpowder sugar 4x
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1 cchopped pecans
How to Make Grandma Harrison's Old Fashion Red Velvet Cake
- Preheat oven 350
- Cream sugar and butter, add eggs ( make sure they are large if not use 3 eggs) beat until fluffy.
- Make a paste by mixing the cocoa and vinegar and add to butter mixture.
- Sift salt, baking soda and flour together, add this and buttermilk, vanilla and red food coloring to butter mixture.
- Pour batter into 2 round cake pans that have been coated with nonstick spray ( or what ever you use to prevent sticking to pan). Bake at 350 for 25 minutes. The cake layers will be thin so I would check them at 20 minutes to be safe. Varies with different ovens.
- While the cake is baking cream the butter and powder sugar and flour, sweet milk and vanilla. Once it is smooth and creamy add the coconut and pecans mixing well.
- Once the cake has cooled completely frost the cake. I use the icing sparingly on the middle layer just to make sure I have enough to cover entire cake.
