Red Velvet Pound Cake

Ingredients

3 c unsifted flour
3/4 c milk
3 c sugar
1 bottled food coloring
3/4 c shortening
7 eggs
1/2 c butter
1 ts baking powder
1 tb vanilla
1/4 ts salt
1/2 c cocoa
8 oz cream cheese
1/2 confectioners sugar
1 ts vanilla
1/2 butter

Instructions

CAKE-Cream sugar, shortening, vanilla, food coloring and eggs. Add dry ingredients and milk. Bake in large and floured tube pan for 1-1/2 hours at 275~. Turn out of pan to cool. ICING-Cream together cream cheese, sugar, vanilla and butter.