Blue Velvet Cake

Ingredients

½ cup Crisco

1 ½ cups sugar

2 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 salt

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 teaspoon soda

1 cup buttermilk

1 tablespoon vinegar

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.