Red Velvet Cake

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5 from 1 vote

Prep Time 30

Cook Time 30

Total Time 1

Author Stacey Little

Ingredients

2 1/2 cups cake flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 packet hot chocolate mix (about 3 tablespoons)
1/2 cup butter
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 (1-ounce) bottles red food coloring
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup buttermilk
1 tablespoon white vinegar
1 teaspoon baking soda

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 350°F and grease and flour two 8-inch cake pans.
In a large bowl, mix together the cake flour, salt, and hot chocolate mix. (A note on cake flour: Cake flour is much finer than regular flour and produces a much different textured cake.)
With a mixer, cream sugar and butter together. Mix in whole eggs, food coloring, and vanilla. (Mix slowly when adding the food coloring or you and your entire kitchen will end up splattered with red!)
Mix buttermilk, vinegar, and baking soda together.
Alternately add flour mixtures and buttermilk mixture to creamed ingredients until all of each mixture has been added.
Divide batter into the prepared cake pans. Bake for 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean.
Cool completely and ice with Cream Cheese Frosting.

* If nutritional values are provided, they are an estimate and will vary depending on the brands used. The values do not include optional ingredients or when ingredients are added to taste.

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