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Printer Friendly  Add to Recipe Box Email to Friend Print Shopping List Red Velvet/Red Waldorf Astoria Cake Occasion: Any Cuisine: North American Date Added: 3/11/2004 Chef: Garden Gal       Serving Size:   Not Provided  Servings:   depends on how it is prepared Cooking Time:   30 minutes Preptime:   15 minutes Cooking Temp:   350 degrees Effort:   Average Ingredients   1/2 cup crisco 1 1/2 cups sugar 2 eggs 2 Tbsp cocoa 1 1/2 oz red food coloring 1 tsp salt 2 1/2 cups flour 1 tsp vanilla 1 cup buttermilk 1 tsp soda 1 Tbl vinegar   Prepare    Cream shortening. Add sugar, cream well. Add eggs. Blend cocoa and food coloring to make a paste. Add to the creamed shortening, sugar, and egg mixture Blend salt and flour Alternate adding flour and buttermilk to shortening mixture. Beat well after each addition. Blend soda and vinegar in a small cup. Mixture will foam. Gently fold into batter. Fold in vanilla Bake in 3 8-inch pans or 2 9-inch pans, or in one 9 x 13 inch pan Bake for about 30 minutes in smaller pans or 35 minutes in larger pan or until toothpick comes clean when inserted in middle of cake. Mock Whipped Cream Frosting: 1 c. milk 5 Tbsp flour pinch of salt 1 c. granulated sugar 1/2 c. of stick margarine or butter, softened to room temperature 1/2 c. of crisco 1 tsp of pure vanilla extract Whisk milk into flour and salt in a saucepan. Cook over medium heat, whisking constantly until mixture is the consistency of mashed potatoes. Set aside to cool Cream shortening and butter or margarine until fluffy. Add sugar, 2 or 3 tablespoons at a time, and continue to beat until light and fluffy. Slowly add the milk-flour-salt mixture by tablespoons to the shortening-butter-sugar mixture. Beat well after each addition. You can't overbeat this! This should be very light and fluffy so there is no graininess to the texture. Finally, add 1 tsp of pure vanilla extract. Beat well to incorporate. Frost the cake, and refrigerate until time to serve.   This recipe has been viewed 1677 times. Nutritional Information Calories Not Provided Cholestorol Not Provided Vitamin B  Not Provided Total Fat  Not Provided Sodium  Not Provided Vitamin B12  Not Provided Saturated Fat  Not Provided Dietary Fiber  Not Provided Vitamin D   Not Provided Carbohydrates  Not Provided Vitamin A  Not Provided Vitamin E  Not Provided