*My Granny's recipe calls for 1/4 c of red food coloring, but I didn't have that much on hand when I was baking the cake for this post. If you want your cake to have a deeper, richer shade of red, add more food coloring than what I suggest (more than 4 tsp). [br]**If you don't have 1 c of buttermilk on hand, you can make it by filling a 1-cup measuring cup almost all the way to the top with regular cow's milk (I used whole milk), and then top it off with white distilled vinegar (maybe a teaspoon or two of vinegar). Allow it to sit for a few minutes to curdle. I always make my own buttermilk - I never have regular buttermilk in my fridge!