Red Velvet Cake

1/4 C butter

2 tsp cocoa

1 1/2 C sugar

2 eggs

1 C buttermilk

1 tsp vanilla

1 1/2 tsp baking soda

1 tsp vinegar

2 tsp 2 oz. red food coloring

2 1/2 C flour

Cream butter, sugar and eggs.  Make a paste of cocoa and food coloring;  add this to creamed mixture.  Mix buttermilk, salt and vanilla;  add to creamed mixture alternately with flour.

Add baking soda to vinegar to baking soda and fold in at the very end.  (Do Not use a mixer!)

Pour into 2 or 3 greased and floured round cake pans.  Bake until done.

Icing

5 TBSP flour

1 C milk

Mix milk and flour in a double broiler and cook until thickened.  Refrigerate until very cold (at least 1 hour)

Then:  cream Crisco, sugar and vanilla.

1 C Crisco

1 C sugar

1 tsp vanilla

Add Crisco mixture to the milk/flour mixture;  beat at least 5 minutes with a mixer.

Refrigerate any leftovers of this cake.  (Leftovers?? Really??!)