Red Velvet Cake & Cream Cheese Icing

Ingredients

• Cake
• 2 1/2 cup(s) plain flour sifted
• 1 cup(s) buttermilk
• 1 1/2 cup(s) sugar
• 2 cup(s) Crisco oil
• 1 teaspoon(s) baking soda
• 1 teaspoon(s) salt
• 1 teaspoon(s) vinegar
• 1 teaspoon(s) dark cocoa
• 1 teaspoon(s) vanilla flavoring
• 2 ounce(s) red food coloring
• 2 eggs
• Icing
• 1 stick(s) unsalted butter
• 1 box(es) confectioners sugar
• 1 package(s) 8 ounces cream cheese
• 1 teaspoon(s) vanilla flavoring
• 1 cup(s) pecans chopped

Preparation

1. CAKE:
2. Preheat oven to 350. Cream sugar and oil; add eggs. Beat well. Sift together flour, salt and soda; set aside. Mix together food coloring, vinegar and cocoa; add to sugar and oil ingredients. Add vanilla flavoring. Add flour mixture alternately with buttermilk; blend well. Pour batter into 3 round cake pans or 1 sheet cake pan. Bake for about 35 minutes. Let layers cool thoroughly after baking.
3. ICING:
4. Mix butter, sugar and cream cheese; add vanilla flavoring and nuts. Ice cake.