How to Make Appetizing Red Velvet Cake

Red Velvet Cake.

You can cook Red Velvet Cake using 11 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Red Velvet Cake

1. Prepare of sugar.
2. Prepare of eggs.
3. Prepare of vanilla extract.
4. You need of Crisco.
5. You need of vinegar.
6. You need of Cocoa.
7. Prepare of All purpose flour.
8. Prepare of baking powder.
9. It's of salt.
10. Prepare of sour cream.
11. Prepare of Red food color.

Red Velvet Cake step by step

1. Preheat oven to 350°.
2. Cream together Crisco, eggs, vanilla, sugar.
3. Blend in vinegar, cocoa & red food color.
4. Mix together flour, salt & baking powder.
5. Add one cup of flour mixture & mix 1 minute.
6. Next add cup of sour cream, mix one minute.
7. Add last cup of flour & mix until everything is blended - scrape down sides of bowl.
8. Grease & flour a bundt pan. Add mixture & bake for 1 hour to 1 hour 10 minutes depending on oven.
9. Remove from oven & let cool for 10 minutes.
10. Invert onto cake plate. Once cool, drizzle with cream cheese frosting.
11. Frosting: Mix together 1 stick of butter, 1 block of cream cheese, 1 box of powdered sugar & 2 tsp of vanilla extract. Pecans optional..