Award Winning Red Velvet Cake

Red Velvet Cake, a southern specialty!

This one is included in our family favorites cookbook.

If you are going to write up a family recipe book,

don't include poisonous recipes just ask

 Teeny Templeton.

Michael Lee West sent me a copy of her latest

book, Gone With A Handsomer Man.

I told her I would blog my

 Award Winning Red Velvet Cake

in honor of Teeny Templeton who loves to cook

but whose Templeton Family Receipts get her

into trouble because they tend toward the

lethal side.

I have to warn you, this book is pretty "spicy".

It will also make you very, very hungry

(remember she is a pastry chef!)

The Red Velvet Cake will make you hungry too.

(Not for dieters!)

This family recipe came from

  Grandma Eunice.

My husband's favorite cake was Grandma's Red Velvet

Cake.  His mother went through the phase that red

food coloring was like poison

 (just like the Templeton Family Receipts),

so when his mother

would stop at Grandma's house and Grandma would

send my hubby his favorite red velvet cake (of which she always kept

some unfrosted cake layers frozen, ready in case one of her

grandchildren stopped by), she would toss it in the trash

before it ever got to our house. (Or so family legend says!)

Teeny's not the only one with unique relatives!

At a family reunion a few years ago, my husband's siblings

decided to have a bakeoff to see who could make

Grandma Eunice's red velvet cake the best. 

This is the award winning recipe made by Uncle Greg

(he beat out the women.)

Click here to find the complete recipe.

Teeny says,

"In the middle of the book, I found a recipe for red velvet cake 

that called for vinegar, cocoa, buttermilk, and a whole

bottle of red food coloring.  Aunt Bluette had written

in the upper corner, dense and moist, the best cake

you'll ever put in your mouth...."

This award winning cake fits the bill, although

I have to say, I tweek it with a marshmallow cream

frosting rather than cream cheese.  Try it, you 

will agree, it is award winning.

I will be posting this with 

Foodie Fridays

 (Michael Lee West's amazing weekly food party)

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