Blue Velvet Cake

Blue Velvet Cake

Ingredients

• ½ cup Crisco
• 1 ½ cups sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 ounce royal blue gel paste food color
• 2 drops violet gel paste food color
• 2 tablespoons cocoa
• 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
• 1 scant teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 teaspoon soda
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 1 tablespoon vinegar

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Grease and flour 3 8-inch round cake pans.
Cream together Crisco, sugar and eggs.
Make a paste of food coloring and cocoa and add to mixture.
Add salt and flour with buttermilk and vanilla.
Alternately add soda and vinegar; just blend, don’t beat hard.
Bake 25 minutes.
Cool cake thoroughly before frosting.
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