Bria's Red Velvet Cake

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup shortening
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 2 eggs
• 2 cups cake flour
• 1 teaspoon cocoa
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 1 teaspoon vinegar
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• red food coloring
• 2 (10 ounce) cans buttercream frosting

Directions

1. 1

   Preheat 350.

2. 2

   Cream shortening and sugar.

3. 3

   Add vanilla, eggs, cream well.

4. 4

   Sift and measure cake flour with cocoa, sift 3 times. Add to creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk.

5. 5

   Beat in desired amount of food coloring.

6. 6

   Fold in soda and vinegar.

7. 7

   Bake in two greased and floured 9 inch cake pans.

8. 8

   Bake 30 minutes or until knife comes out clean.

9. 9

   Let cool on wire rack.

10. 10

    Freeze for two hours.

11. 11

    Take out frozen pans and cut each round in half, resulting in 4 cake layers.

12. 12

    Brush off crumbs from cakes with brush, frost and assemble.