Red Velvet Cocoa Cake Recipe

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• 2 8x2 in. Round Pans

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter or margarine, softened
• 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
• 1 teaspoon Madagascar Pure Vanilla Extract
• 2 eggs
• 1 ounce Red (no-taste) Icing Color
• 2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1/4 cup cocoa powder
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup buttermilk or sour milk
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 1 tablespoon white vinegar
• Cake Release

Makes: Approximately 6 cups of batter.

Instructions

Heat oven to 350°F. Grease two 8 in. round baking pans with Wilton Cake Release or vegetable pan spray. In large mixer bowl, beat butter, sugar and vanilla until creamy. Add eggs and icing color; blend well. Stir together flour, cocoa and salt; add alternately with buttermilk to batter mixture, beating until blended. Stir baking soda into vinegar; fold carefully into batter (do not beat). Pour batter into prepared pans. Bake 30-35 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool 10 minutes; remove from pans to wire rack. Cool completely.

*To sour milk, use 1 tablespoon white vinegar plus milk to equal 1 cup.