How To Make Blue Velvet Cake

By Robyn Stone, Add a Pinch
 

Serves: 12

Ingredients
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• ½ cup Crisco
• 1 ½ cups sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 1 ounce royal blue gel paste food color
• 2 drops violet gel paste food color
• 2 tablespoons cocoa
• 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
• 1 scant teaspoon kosher salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 1 tablespoon white vinegar

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Instructions

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Grease and flour 3 8-inch round cake pans.
• Cream together Crisco, sugar and eggs.
• Make a paste of food coloring and cocoa and add to mixture.
• Add salt and flour with buttermilk and vanilla.
• Alternately add soda and vinegar; just blend, don’t beat hard.
• Bake 25 minutes.
• Cool cake thoroughly before frosting.

Notes: I used Americolor Soft Gel Paste in Royal Blue and Violet. You may also want to try a natural-based food coloring.

 

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