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Easy Red Velvet Cake and South American Cookies

By , About.com GuideDecember 15, 2011

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Easy Red Velvet Cake If you're like me, the holidays have you going full speed ahead and you barely have time to fix meals, let alone make a holiday dessert. This easy red velvet cake is a fabulous dessert to make when you're pressed for time, and it's both festive and delicious. Sprinkle chopped pecans or coconut on this cake to make it look very special.
Recipe: Easy Red Velvet Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting

Easy red velvet cake image ©2011 Diana Rattray, licensed to About.com, Inc.

Virtual Cookie Exchange 2011 - South American Food
The South American caramel sandwich cookies called alfajores are the perfect holiday homemade gift - they are fun to decorate and delicious. Marian Blazes, guide to South American food, also suggests gingerbread llamas and coconut rollout cookies.

Picture of cookies ©2011 Marian Blazes, licensed to About.com, Inc.

Comments

December 16, 2009 at 9:05 pm
(1) randomreader says:

Cream cheese icing is not the correct icing for red velvet cake.

December 20, 2011 at 2:54 pm
(2) nadine says:

cream cheese icing is EXACTLY the correct icing for red vevet cake. That’s the only icing I would ever use on red velvet and everyone I know uses it for that type of cake.

December 21, 2011 at 8:19 am
(3) pandabr says:

I have never seen any red velvet cake that didn’t have cream cheese frosting. Be it homemade or boughten product.

December 23, 2011 at 7:15 pm
(4) shellie says:

Randomreader is correct! The original Waldorth Cake”s (red cake as we know it know) frosty is a cooked butter cream(?) frosting. I was a little girl when this recipe was first printed and my Mom made 3 of them a year. One for my sisters” and mine birthdays and the last one was for Christmas.
YUMMY!

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