Bria's Red Velvet Cake

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup shortening
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 eggs
• 2 cups cake flour
• 1 teaspoon cocoa
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 1 teaspoon vinegar
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• red food coloring
• 2 (10 ounce) cans buttercream frosting

Recipe

• 1 preheat 350.
• 2 cream shortening and sugar.
• 3 add vanilla, eggs, cream well.
• 4 sift and measure cake flour with cocoa, sift 3 times. add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk.
• 5 beat in desired amount of food coloring.
• 6 fold in soda and vinegar.
• 7 bake in two greased and floured 9 inch cake pans.
• 8 bake 30 minutes or until knife comes out clean.
• 9 let cool on wire rack.
• 10 freeze for two hours.
• 11 take out frozen pans and cut each round in half, resulting in 4 cake layers.
• 12 brush off crumbs from cakes with brush, frost and assemble.