Red Velvet Pound Cake
Ingredients
3 C. unsifted flour
3/4 C. milk
3 C. sugar
1 bottled red food coloring
3/4 C. shortening
7 eggs
1/2 C. butter
1 tsp. baking powder
1 Tbsp. vanilla
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 C. cocoa
Icing
8 ounces cream cheese; soft
1/2 confectioners’ sugar plus 2 Tbsp.
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 butter; soft
Cooking Instructions
Cake – Cream sugar, shortening, vanilla, food coloring and eggs. Add dry ingredients and milk. Bake in large and floured tube pan for 1-1/2 hours at 275. Turn out of pan to cool. Icing – Cream together cream cheese, sugar, vanilla and butter.
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