{"id":2896,"date":"2026-02-15T18:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:42:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/recipe4thecook.com\/\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T18:42:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T18:42:14","slug":"waldorf-red-velvet-cake-and-frosting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/blog\/2026\/02\/15\/waldorf-red-velvet-cake-and-frosting\/","title":{"rendered":"Waldorf Red Velvet Cake And Frosting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\"><b><font face=\"comic sans ms\" size=\"5\">Ingredients<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Cake:<br \/>\n1\/2 C. shortening<br \/>\n2 eggs<br \/>\n1 tsp. vanilla<br \/>\n1 tsp. salt<br \/>\n2 1\/2 C. flour, all purpose; sifted 2 to 3 times<br \/>\n1 tsp. baking soda<br \/>\n1 1\/2 C. sugar<br \/>\n1\/4 C. food coloring, red<br \/>\n2 Tbsp. cocoa<br \/>\n1 C. buttermilk<br \/>\n1 Tbsp. vinegar<br \/>\nFrosting:<br \/>\n1 C. milk<br \/>\n5 tsp. flour, all purpose<br \/>\n1 C. butter<br \/>\n1 C. sugar, powdered; sifted<br \/>\n1 tsp. vanilla<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><b><font face=\"comic sans ms\" size=\"5\">Cooking Instructions<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Cake: Cream shortening and sugar till fluffy. Add eggs and beat 1 minute. Add salt, beat.  Add vanilla and coloring to buttermilk. Alternate the flour and milk mixtures to batter.  Combine soda and vinegar in C. and add to cake batter. Bake in two 9 inch cake pans at  350 for 25 to 30 minutes. Cool on cake racks.  Frosting: Cook milk and flour until thick; cool in fridge. Beat butter, sugar and vanilla  with mixer. Add flour and milk mixture a little at a time (make ahead of cake so that it  has plenty of time to cool). Beat well.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&quot;Then God said, &quot;Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you;&quot; (Genesis 1:29)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cake<\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/blog\/2026\/02\/15\/waldorf-red-velvet-cake-and-frosting\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cake"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/recipes4thecook.com\/cake\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}