Lisa's Red Velvet Cake
- Ready In:
- 1hr 10mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Serves:
-
8-10
ingredients
- 4 eggs
- 2 cups sugar
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1⁄2 cup vegetable oil
- 1 teaspoon vinegar
- 3 cups cake flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup buttermilk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 ounce red food coloring
- 1 tablespoon cocoa
- cream cheese frosting
directions
- In a large mixing bowl, combine eggs, sugar, butter, vegetable oil and vinegar, beat until smooth. Sift together flour, cocoa, and soda, add alternately with buttermilk to egg mixture. Add vanilla and food coloring, beating well. Bake in 4 greased 9-inch round cake pans at 350 degrees for 25 minutes. Let cool completely and frost the cake.
- Cream Cheese Frosting.
- 1 8-oz. pkg. cream cheese, softened.
- 1/2 cup butter, softened.
- 1 lb. box confectioner's sugar.
- 1 teaspoon vanilla.
- 1 cups pecans, chopped (optional).
- Combine cream cheese and butter; gradually add sugar. Add remaining ingredients, beating until spreading consistency. Frost cooled cake layers.
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