Ingredients:
• 1 cup butter
• 1 cups sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 3 tablespoons cocoa
• 2 teaspoons red colour
• 2 tablespoons water
• 2 cup sifted cake flour
• 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1 tablespoon vinegar
Directions:
1. Cream the butter and the sugar together, add the eggs and keep beating. Add the cinnamon, vanilla and salt. Mix the cocoa, the red colour and the water and add to the egg sugar mixture. Sift the flour and the 1 teaspoons of baking powder. Add the flour and the buttermilk slowly into the other ingredients, alternating.
2. Mix 1 teaspoon baking powder and 1 tablespoon vinegar. Blend very gently into batter. Pour batter into two greased and floured 9 inch cake pans.
3. Bake in a 350 d