Red Velvet Cake - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 oz. red food coloring
3 tsp. Nestle Quik
1/2 c. Crisco
1 3/4 c. sugar
2 eggs
2 1/4 c. cake flour
1 tsp. salt
1 1/4 c. buttermilk
1 tsp. vanilla
1 Tbsp. vinegar
1 tsp. soda

Preparation

Make a thin paste of food coloring and Nestle Quik.
Cream Crisco and sugar.
Add whole eggs and color paste.
Mix together. Sift together cake flour and salt.
Sift 3 times.
Add alternately the buttermilk and dry ingredients.
Add vanilla.
Beat with mixer for 3 minutes.
Remove from mixer; add vinegar and soda. Mix into batter by hand.
Bake in 3 greased and floured 8-inch round pans at 350\u00b0 for 35 minutes or in a 9 x 13-inch pan for 40 minutes.