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
- 1 Tbsp
- vinegar
- 1 Tbsp
- cocoa
- 2 c
- sugar
- 2 1/2 c
- cake flour
- 1 bottle
- red food color
- 1 tsp
- baking soda
- 2 large
- eggs
- 1/4 tsp
- salt
- 1 c
- buttermilk
- 1 can(s)
- sweeten coconut
- 1 c
- butter
- 3 Tbsp
- flour
- 1 c
- sweet milk
- 1 tsp
- vanilla extract
- 1 c
- powder sugar 4x
- 1 c
- chopped pecans
How to Make Grandma Harrison's Old Fashion Red Velvet Cake
- 1Preheat oven 350
- 2Cream sugar and butter, add eggs ( make sure they are large if not use 3 eggs) beat until fluffy.
- 3Make a paste by mixing the cocoa and vinegar and add to butter mixture.
- 4Sift salt, baking soda and flour together, add this and buttermilk, vanilla and red food coloring to butter mixture.
- 5Pour 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.
- 6While 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.
- 7Once 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.
