Nana Utterback & Red Velvet

My Nana Utterback used to make me a Red Velvet Cake in a special pan when I was a kid. It wasn’t until I became an adult and asked for the recipe, I found out she used the Waldorf Astoria’s recipe. Now the icing, the icing was a different recipe than I had ever seen. The piece of paper had a note from my Mom “icing recipe from Aunt Marjorie”.


Icing Recipe from my Great Aunt Marjorie
1 Stick butter
1/2 c. Crisco
1 c. sugar
3T. flour
2/3 c. milk
1 t. vanilla

Directions for Icing
1. Cream together the first three ingredients.
2. Add flour 1 T. at a time
3. Add milk gradually
4. Add vanilla and beat until fluffy
5. You may add a food coloring of your choice at this point.