green velvet cake

Since St. Patrick's day is tomorrow, I'm sharing a recipe I made for Cliff's birthday, which we celebrated tonight. If you're quarantined at home with the kids and want to try something different, here you go! This cake uses basic ingredients except for the food coloring. For locals, I believe Echo Hill sells single vials of food coloring, also Walmart has single bottles of green color at this time of year. You could also use the more concentrated coloring, but much less than the thin kind. Red velvet cake is a favorite of ours, and this is the same recipe. You can make this into cupcakes as well.

Green Velvet Cake

1 cup buttermilk

1¼ cup oil

2 eggs

2 tsp. vanilla

1 tsp. vinegar

1 - 2 Tbsp. green food coloring
(Depends how green you want it. I did 1½ Tbsp.)
2½ cups flour
1 ½ cups sugar
½ tsp. salt
1 tsp. baking soda
1 tsp. cocoa

Mix liquid ingredients except food coloring. Beat two minutes. Add food coloring and gently mix to avoid splattering. Add dry ingredients and beat two more minutes. Pour into a greased sheet cake pan and bake at 350° 15 - 16 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean. Cool and frost with cream cheese icing.

Cream cheese icing

4 oz. cream cheese, softened
¼ cup butter, softened
4 cups powdered sugar
2 tsp. vanilla
2 - 3 Tbsp. milk

Beat softened butter and cream cheese together. Add powdered sugar, vanilla, and enough milk to achieve a spreadable consistency (not too thin).

For extra decoration, sprinkle with green sugar or whatever sprinkles you like!