Name: Red Velvet Cake
Ingredients: 1 1/2 c Sugar; 1 c Butter; 3 Eggs; 1 tb Butter extract; 2 oz Red food coloring; 2 1/2 c Cake flour; 2 tb Cocoa; 1 c Buttermilk; 1 ts Baking soda; 1 ts Vinegar

A man’s free will cannot cure him even of the toothache, or a sore finger; and yet he madly thinks it is in its power to cure his soul. The greatest judgment which God Himself can, in the present life, inflict upon a man is, to leave him in the hand of his own boasted free will. Look where you will, and you will generally find that free-willers are very free livers. According to Arminianism, grace has the name, but free-will has the game.

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CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs, Dairy		Cakes	12	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1 1/2	c	Sugar
1	c	Butter
3		Eggs
1	tb	Butter extract
2	oz	Red food coloring
2 1/2	c	Cake flour
2	tb	Cocoa
1	c	Buttermilk
1	ts	Baking soda
1	ts	Vinegar

INSTRUCTIONS

Recipe by: Shirley Edmund From: Jackie Bordelon <jbord@premier.net>
Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 19:20:49 -0500
Cream butter and sugar until very light and fluffy. Add eggs, one at a
time, beating well after each addition.  Then add both extract and
coloring.  Mix flour and cocoa, be sure all cocoa lumps are mashed;  then
add this to the butter mixture.  Stir real well; add buttermilk, again
mixing well.  Combine soda and vinegar in a small cup and pour over batter
mixture; mix real well.  Pour in pans.  Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes.
Let cake cook completely before frosting.
Posted to Master Cook Recipes List, Digest #96

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