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Cake: Cream together butter, sugar, and eggs.
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Beat until fluffy.
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Make a paste with vinegar and cocoa.
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Add to the fluffy mixture of butter, sugar, and eggs.
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Mix.
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Sift together flour, salt, and baking soda.
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Mix in a little at a time to the fluffy mixture until you have added it all.
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Mix in a little buttermilk at a time until you have added it all.
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Mix in vanilla and red food coloring last.
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Grease and flour 2 8 in cake pans.
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Makes a 2 layer cake.
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Bake at 350 for about 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the middle comes out clean.
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Flip upside down onto wire racks to cool.
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Icing: Cream together cream cheese and butter or margarine.
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Add vanilla and mix.
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Add salt and mix.
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Slowly add confectioners sugar or 10x sugar a little at a time until you have it all incorporated.
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Keep mixing.
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This is easier if you have a stand mixer as it takes a long time of mixing to completely dissolve all of the sugar.
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If you have not mixed enough, it will taste like powdered sugar.
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Add the chopped pecans last and mix.
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While the cakes are still cooling, put the icing in the fridge.
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After the cakes are cool, flip over one layer on to a plate or pie plate.
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Ice the top of this layer generously.
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Set the second layer on top of the iced layer.
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The part of the cake that was touching the wire racks should be the part of the layers that are facing the middle.Finish icing.
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Refrigerate to firm up the icing.
