Basic Yellow Cake

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Basic Yellow Cake Ingredients

1 c Butter; softened	1 tb Baking powder
2 c Sugar	1/2 ts Salt
5 lg Eggs	1 1/4 c Milk
3 c All-purpose flour; sifted	1 ts Vanilla

Instructions for Basic Yellow Cake

Let eggs, milk, and butter stand till room temperature. Cream butter, gradually add sugar, beating well. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Combine flour, baking powder, and salt, add to creamed mixture alternately with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Stir in vanilla. Pour batter into 2 greased and floured 9-inch round cake pans or 13x9 inch cake pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 25 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans 10 minutes; remove layers from pans and cool completely before frosting. Recipe by: Frances Croom Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #924 by "The Crooms" on Nov 26, 1997

Main Ingredient: CakeCuisine: American

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very easy

larrydot
on Sep 17 2008 7:14AM

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I loved this recipe. I wanted to make strawberry shortcake but without a "biscuit-like" cake, so I found this recipe. I was out of vanilla extract(!!!!!) so had to used almond extract, but it was still lucsious and went great with my strawberries and whipped cream.

dharmag
on Apr 11 2008 10:09AM

nice basic yellow cake - easy and delicious!

cactustree
on Mar 17 2008 11:30AM

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