Two holiday dessert staples

[liteluvr]

I'm not a big dessert guy... my idea of dessert is another plate of the main course... but these two recipes have graced the Thanksgiving and Christmas tables for more years than I can count.

Hershey’s Red Velvet Cake
Hershey’s printed this recipe back in the ‘30’s It was a favorite back than and still is.

½ cup shortening
2½ cups sifted cake flour
1½ cups sugar
1 cup buttermilk
1 tbs. Vanilla
1 tsp. Salt
3 tbs. Cocoa
1 tsp. Soda
3 oz. Red food coloring
1 tbs. Vinegar

Cream shortening and sugar. Add eggs and vanilla. Beat well. In a separate dish, blend cocoa and food coloring; add to sugar mixture. Add flour, buttermilk and salt alternately. Mix soda and vinegar in cup and add. Bake in 2 8 inch pans, greased and floured at 350º for 30 to 35 minutes or until test is done.

Icing for Red Velvet Cake
½ cup milk
½ cup Crisco
2 tbs. Flour
½ cup white sugar
¼ cup butter
1 tsp. Vanilla

Cook milk and flour together until thickened. Set aside to cool. Mix butter, Crisco, sugar and vanilla then add milk and flour mixture. Beat together until creamy.

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Yummy
Recipe by Betty Scott

Crust
1 cup flour
1 cup chopped pecans
1 stick oleo

Mix together in bottom of 9 x 12 inch pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes. Cool.

Filling
1 cup powdered sugar
1 8 oz cream cheese
1 cup Cool Whip

Beat cream cheese until creamy. Add powdered sugar and cool whip. Mix well. Spread over crust.

Topping
1 small package vanilla instant pudding
1 small package chocolate pudding
3 ½ cups milk

Mix until thickened. Spread over cheese layer. Spread cool whip over pudding. Refrigerate. For garnish, grate a Hershey bar over the Cool Whip,

[Hermantribe]

The recipe says to add eggs to shortening/sugar mixture, but the list ofr ingredients does not state how many eggs. Does your recipe say? I want to make this for my youngest daughter's birthday next week. Thanks!

[Hermantribe]

I googled the recipe and found this:

http://www.hersheys.com/recipes/5058...et%20Cake.aspx

it uses 2 eggs, butter instead of shortening and a 2 oz. bottle of food coloring. Yum!

[hunybee]

my cartoon bubble had different images upon reading the title of this thread

[Hermantribe]

love that thanks