Red Velvet Cake With French Cream Frosting Recipe

Ingredients

For Cake:

1 cup beer

1 tsp. baking soda

1/2 cup shortening

1-1/4 cups sugar

3/4 tsp. salt

2 eggs

1 tsp. cocoa

1 tsp. vanilla

1 1-oz. bottle red food color

2-1/2 cups sifted cake flour

For French Cream Frosting:

1-1/2 cups milk

1/2 cup unsifted cake flour

1-1/2 cups sugar

1-1/2 cups butter

1 Tablespoon vanilla

Preparation

Mix soda with 1 Tablespoon beer and let settle. Mix sugar, shortening, eggs, salt, cocoa, vanilla, and food color until light. Add beer and flour alternately and then soda. Bake 30-35 minutes at 350 degrees. Cool and split layers.

French Cream Frosting

Cook milk and flour and cool. Beat other ingredients until light and fluffy. Beat in cooked mixture 1 teaspoon at a time with electric mixer at high speed. Frost split layers of red velvet cake generously. Store in refrigerator.

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