Grandmother Paula's Red Velvet Cake

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The cake takes good, but the frosting is too too sweet. The marshmallows take away from the cream cheese taste of the frosting. My husband thinks this recipe is great for cup cakes.

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I found this online years ago and I fell in love. I have changed it many times and now its my own and I just love the fact that it was my initial starting recipe.

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Its very light and fluffy (almost like cotton candy but thicker, not a strong cocoa and dye taste, and moist. Made my first one yesterday for a birthday present. Making another today for everyone with nuts this time. This recipe is so easy just like her pound cake recipe. I have been baking for a few years now, and all have derived from Paula's recipes.

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I'm a lover of red velvet and it's this lady were I live that makes great cakes so I pay for it, but when I fixed this cake everyone love it if they didn't like rv cake they do now I have made it with cake flower and ap flower both was great so now its time to make it again can't stop eating. Thanks Mrs. Paula and grandma for this cake.

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I absolutely love this recipe! I never Really liked Red Velvet Cake before trying this cake, 1st off to avoid the cake being dense I added a splash of vegetable oil into the cake. It was very very veryMOIST. I also doubled the cocoa and vanilla. Ive made the cake plenty of times and ppl love it each time. True crowd pleaser.

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The flavor of the cake was good. Unfortunately, the texture of the cake was too dense and extremely dry. I'm not sure what happened. I followed the recipe to a tee. Substituted the cream cheese frosting with buttercream as that is what my husband prefers.

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Totally awesome! I have never liked Red Velvet Cake until I made this one. It is my daughter-in-law's favorite cake, so I wanted to make it for her birthday. After looking through lots of R.V.C. recipes I decided to try this one, now I'm hooked. It baked up light and tender. I used a 9x13 pan (35 minutes in a convection over at 350 degrees. I did not double the recipe but did make it twice since I wanted a 2-layer 9x13. I can't wait for my d-i-l to taste it and tell me what she thinks. Thank you Paula!

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I had not even heard of red velvet cake until my son requested it for his 18th birthday. I looked at several recipes and settled on this one. After reading many reviews I was concerned about the cake being too dense. I preheated the oven to 350 then, after a few minutes, turned it down to around 325. I tested the cakes after 20 minutes (not the full 25 and they tested fine so out they came. Since there were three layers I made 1 1/2 times the icing recipe (no coconut or pecans and it was the perfect amount. I read comments about it being too sweet but the birthday boy's comment was that it was not real sweet. And his 22 year sister said it was the best cake I ever made. The cake was slightly denser than most cakes but in no way would I consider it dense. I heeded the thoughful comments by reviewers and I'm sure they helped my cake turn out as perfect as it did.

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Perfect!! To me, it's not so much dense as so smooth, it transcends cake!

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Ended up way to dense. Over mixed the batter.