CAKE
1/2 c Butter
1 1/2 c Sugar
2 Eggs
2 tb Cocoa
2 oz Red food coloring
1 ts Vanilla
1 ts Salt
1 c Buttermilk
2 c Flour
1 tb Vinegar
1 ts Baking soda
FROSTING
1 c Milk
5 tb Flour
1 c Butter
1 c Sugar
1 ts Vanilla
CAKE: Cream together butter, sugar and eggs. Make a paste of cocoa
and food coloring. Add the paste to the creamed mixture. Mix salt
and vanilla in buttermilk and add alternately with the flour. Mix
soda and vinegar separately, add last, folding in. DO NOT BEAT after
adding soda mixture. Bake at 350 degrees for 30 minutes.
ICING: Boil together milk and flour until thickened. Let stand until
cool. Cream together butter, sugar and vanilla. Add milk and flour
mix and beat very well. (The longer you beat it the better it gets.)
Yields
8 Servings