Grandmother Paula's Red Velvet Cake

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This cakes is just the best red velvet cake I have ever taste!! I found it super simple and easy to make.

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I made this cake for Christmas this year and let me just say it was the best red velvet cake I have ever put in my mouth! If you follow the directions to a T and DO NOT change a thing for making the cake it will be great. Remember to use unsalted butter and cake flour. It makes all the difference in the world. I did not use the icing recipe because I do not like coconut or nuts. Instead I used 3 cups of powder sugar, 1-1/4 stick of unsalted butter and 2-8oz blocks of cream cheese with a tsp of vanilla flavoring. Let me just say I will be making this recipe again. Thanks Paula!

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The cake was perfect... my wife bakes wants to open a bakery and was shocked i did so well... I did do a little tweaking to make it something my wife would like more but very slightly deviated from recipe.... i will say that the frosting is delicious but i had a bit to much marshmallow and it pulled at the cake a bit while applying it. great recipe and will now be part of our Christmas tradition.

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This cake came out sooooooooooooooo moist and the frosting was deeeeeelicious!!! Anyone who got a dry cake most likely overcooked it because this cake literally melted in my mouth! My family loved it for christmas! I omitted the pecans since my grandma can't eat them and the coconut cause I personally hate coconut. Since I didn't have cake flour, I used 2 1/2 cups of all purpose minus 2 tablespoons and replace those 2 tablespoons with corn starch. Also, I didn't have buttermilk so I used a substitute of a little bit less than 1 cup of my 2% milk with 1 tablespoon of white vinegar. Again, this cake is amazing!! Paula never let's me down

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I cheated and made a box cake mix with this recipe, so I can't tell you about the cake portion, but the icing was awful. When I first made it it was TOO soft to actually ice anything, so I let it sit in the fridge overnight, and in the morning it was crazy sticky. At least it stuck on the cupcake cakes I made. There was enough icing to cover two dozen cupcakes, though.

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great !!

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I rate this recipe with a 3 star only... Good instead of Fair. Personally, I thought it was delicious. Very dense, and I'm not used to that in a cake. The very same reason, actually, that the majority of my guests did not care for this cake at all. The flavor is incredible to me though. I will try this cake again, but I will try adding the baking soda to the dry and the vinegar to the wet as some reviews called for. I also left the coconut and nuts out of my frosting as my stepdad is allergic. The frosting was incredible!! So over all, I can't stop eating it, but 8 out of 12 of my guests took 1 or 2 bites and did not eat any more... I followed the recipe to a T ... so I'm just really unsure how this should have turned out. I will post again when I try this a 2nd time.

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I made this recipe for the first time last year for Thanksgiving. It was easy to make and turned out wonderful. This was my first time having a red velvet cake with coconut on it but it was wonderful.

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This is my first review also. I don't like red velvet cake at all. I have never liked it but my husband does. I've even made them for him and they weren't that good. I made this recipe today and it is delicious. I will make this cake from now on. The kids and I loved it and my husband asked me to cut a few pieces for his buddies at work tomorrow. :

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This is my first review! I don't normally care enough to do a review but this is by far the best red velvet I have ever had!!! And I have had a few! I followed the directions to a tee! Except I used 6 inch round pans and it took 30 min to bake but it came out fabulous, oh so moist!!!