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Four Egg Yellow Cake

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By: Sweet_Delaney_cakes
Posted 09/23/10 • Last updated 09/23/10 • 291 views • 9 comments

Posted by Sweet_Delaney_cakes

I'm a scratch baker and have been searching and trying a ton of yellow cakes to find the perfect one. I think this might be it!

Ingredients

  • 1 cup shortening 2 cups white sugar 4 eggs 2 tsp vanilla extract 1 tsp butter flavoring 2 3/4 cups all purpose flour 3 tsp baking powder 1 tsp salt 1 3/4 cups whole milk

Instructions

Pre-heat oven to 350. Grease and flour 9x13. Cream shortening and sugar very well. Add eggs one at a time and also add vanilla & butter flavor. In seperate bowl sift dry ingedients together and add alternating with milk. Bake 40-45 min

Comments (9)

MeeMaw12 9/24/10 at 4:55am
This is almost the same yellow cake that I've been baking since high school, for 44 years! The only difference is 3 cups of flour. I got this recipe from the Auburn University cookbook dated 1966; it's called "Standard Butter Cake". It tastes delicious, just as I'm sure yours does.
treit333 9/24/10 at 6:00am
you do mean shortening-not butter right?
rb822 9/25/10 at 1:45pm
any idea if i can substitute margarine for the shortening?
calicopurr 9/29/10 at 9:23pm
Why don't you try it treit333 and rb822 and let us know?
JenniferF 9/30/10 at 1:33pm
I made this recipe this afternoon and it was really, really good. I have also been trying out scratch recipes but didn't find anything as good as this. It's not as yellow as I expected with four yolks, but I'll just call it vanilla cake. Yum. Thanks for sharing this recipe. It will save me from baking another two dozen test recipes!
FonDont 10/12/10 at 6:24am
I'm going to try 1/2 c. real butter, and 1/2 c. shortening. I'm into cakes for the flavor, and try to use butter whenever possible, but sometimes shortening is necessary to achieve the best results in a recipe.
lyndim 11/8/10 at 10:51am
I tried this recipe twice! First time, came up short on flavor, so I added a bit more butter flavor and butter flavor shortening. The flavor was a bit better. So my search continues for scartch yellow cake.
Rhonlynn 6/16/11 at 8:00pm
This is really good. I don't like my butter flavoring, but in this cake, it tasted good. Enough batter to make an 8 x 3, 6 x 2 and a 5 x 2. I didn't change anything, except I used hi ratio shortening, and added 1/4 t spoon of almond extract. I use Penzey;s double strength vanilla. This is very good. It will be what I use. It did take it a long time for the 8 x 3 (as usual). It is not as yellow, so next time i might add yellow to it, or simply call it vanilla. Even my family likes it.
Do-ne 10/5/11 at 10:36pm
This recipe is great!! I substitute the shortening with butter and it turn out great! :)) I made a spongebob cake with this recipe :)
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