unique red velvet cake

Name: Unique Red Velvet Cake
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 30 min
Yield: 8
Ingredients: 4 1/2 cup(s) cake flour, sifted; 1 1/2 teaspoon(s) salt; 4 tablespoon(s) cocoa; 4 ounce(s) beet juice, dranined from one 15oz. can of beets - add water to make 4 oz. if needed.; 1 cup(s) vegetable shortening; 2 3/4 cup(s) sugar; 4 large eggs; 2 cup(s) buttermilk; 1 1/2 tablespoon(s) vanilla extract; 2 tablespoon(s) vinegar; 2 teaspoon(s) baking soda; ## CREAM CHEESE FROTSTING; 2 package(s) cream cheese, 8 oz. each, softened; 2 stick(s) butter or margarine; 2 tablespoon(s) vanilla; 4 cup(s) powdered sugar; - water or milk to thin if needed

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Barbara Pendley

McMinnville, TN

Updated on Mar 31, 2011

This recipe is from another web site: The Hearlers.org and was mentioned by another JAP cook. I have since tired this and it is quite good and wanted to post it here for safe keeping and to share in case anyone missed the other posting. I am sorry I can't remember who found this little gem first.

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prep time 45 Min

cook time 30 Min

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yield 8 serving(s)

Ingredients

4 1/2 cups cake flour, sifted
1 1/2 teaspoons salt
4 tablespoons cocoa
4 ounces beet juice, dranined from one 15oz. can of beets - add water to make 4 oz. if needed.
1 cup vegetable shortening
2 3/4 cups sugar
4 large eggs
2 cups buttermilk
1 1/2 tablespoons vanilla extract
2 tablespoons vinegar
2 teaspoons baking soda
CREAM CHEESE FROTSTING
2 packages cream cheese, 8 oz. each, softened
2 sticks butter or margarine
2 tablespoons vanilla
4 cups powdered sugar
- water or milk to thin if needed

How To Make unique red velvet cake

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare two 9-inch cake pans. Remember to use glass and metal utensils to avoid beet-juice stains.

Step 2

Add salt and cocoa to sifted flour and sift again. With mixer on medium, cream together vegetable shortening and sugar for at least five minutes. Add eggs one at a time, beating at least one minute after each additiion.
Step 3

Add beet juice and vanilla to buttermilk. Alternate adding these liquids and the flour-salt-cocoa mixture to the shortening-sugar. Use a spatula or put your mixer on low---don't overbeat.
Step 4

Put white vinegar in a small bowl and add baking SODA (not powder). It will foam up briefly. Fold into the cake batter----DO NOT OVERBEAT. Batter should be somewhat thick, but add water, if needed, to make a pourable batter.
Step 5

Pour batter into prepared cake pans and bake approximately 30 minutes in a 350 oven. Allow layers to cool for 10 minutes before removing from cake pans. Cool cake completely before frosting. Cute each layer in half to create a four-layer cake.
Step 6

For the cream cheese frosting: Combine all indgredients using mixer. Frost cool cake.
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