Easy Red Velvet Cake

4 tablespoons cocoa powder
1 ounce liquid red food color
3/4 cup water
1 pudding-type cake mix (white or yellow)
4 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon butter flavoring
4 tablespoons buttermilk powder
1 tablespoon white vinegar

Heat oven to 325F.

Mix together cocoa powder, red food color, and a small amount of the water forming a paste. Add remaining ingredients except vinegar. Mix 2-3 minutes on medium speed until well blended. Add vinegar and blend completely. Pour batter into prepared 9" x 13" cake pan and bake for approximately 35 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

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Red Velvet Cake Recipe

1/2 cup shortening
1 1/2 cup sugar
2 eggs
2 tablespoons cocoa
2 ounces red food coloring
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 teaspoon salt
1 cup buttermilk
2 1/2 cups sifted cake flour
1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 tablespoon vinegar

***Icing***
5 tablespoons flour
1 cup milk
1/2 pound real butter
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla

Cream shortening and sugar; add eggs. Make paste of cocoa and food coloring, add to creamed mixture and mix well. Add salt and vanilla to buttermilk. Alternately add buttermilk and flour into shortening mixture, mixing well. Mix baking soda to vinegar and fold gently into batter. DO
NOT BEAT! Makes 3 layers.
Bake at 350 degrees F for 20-30 minutes.

Icing

Mix the flour and milk together in saucepan. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Boil until thick (keep stirring). Cool COMPLETELY!!!! (in fact in works the best to chill it) Cream butter, sugar and vanilla together. Add flour mixture and beat until thick enough to spread.

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Red Velvet Cake Recipe

Although the details are sketchy at best, red velvet cake is not as Southern as many like to think. The story, which began circulating some time in the 1940s, claimed that Manhattan's elegant Waldorf-Astoria granted a diner's request for the recipe, then a short time later sent her a bill in the amount of $100. The angry woman, apparently with revenge in mind, then began circulating the recipe along with the story. Another "baked" legend with the same storyline is the $250 Chocolate Chip Cookie, also known as the Neiman-Marcus Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe.
Home cooks do seem to love cakes with an unusual story or a "secret ingredient." Wacky cake, tomato soup cake and mayonnaise cake are just a few of the unusual cakes we all have in our recipe files, so it's no wonder Southern cooks embraced the delicious and colorful red velvet cake.

Despite its rather tainted roots, the cake turned out to be a winner, perfect for Christmas, Valentines Day, and just about any occasion.
Most of the red velvet cake recipes below come from forum members and many include a cream cheese or cooked frosting recipe, but it would be delicious with any white frosting you choose.

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1. Diana's Desserts - Site dedicated to home bakers, with opportunity for visitors to submit recipes. Red Velvet Cake, Sunday Butter Rum Pound Cake, and Crepes Suzette are among the recipes detailed here.
site: www.dianasdesserts.com
2. Cake Recipes - Favorite old and new recipes such as Cherries and Chocolate Cake, Red Velvet Cake, Carrot Cake, Apple Cake, and Coca-Cola cake.
site: www.cakes.8m.com/

Red Velvet Cake Recipe - Recipes and Information
site: southernfood.about.com/cs/chocolatecakes/a/redvelvet_cake.htm
This red velvet cake recipe is made with cocoa, red food coloring, vinegar, and buttermilk.

Red Velvet Cake Recipe - Red Velvet Cake
site: southernfood.about.com/od/chocolatecakes/r/blbb146.htm

Red Velvet Cake Recipe
site: www.dvo.com/newsletter/monthly/2003/november/1103door4.html

Red Velvet Cake Recipe | Red Velvet Cake Recipes @ CDKitchen.com :: it's what's cooking online!
site: chocolate.cdkitchen.com/recipes/recs/173/RedVelvetCake73113.shtml

Recipes : Southern Red Velvet Cake : Food Network
site: www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_23379,00.html