Cake Recipes

I recently made this cake for a friend's birthday, and it is an old recipe from the 1950's. Sprinkle with coconut and chopped maraschino cherries if you wish.this homemade cake is a good gifts idea for your friends,let me tell you how to make this cakes at home!

INGREDIENTS

• 3 cups sifted cake flour
• 4 teaspoons baking powder
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 cup shortening
• 1 1/2 cups white sugar
• 5 egg yolk, beaten
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 1 1/4 cups milk

DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9 x 13 inch pan.
2. Sift together cake flour, baking powder, and salt.
3. In a large bowl, combine shortening, sugar, yolks, and vanilla; beat with mixer. Add sifted flour mixture alternately with milk in three parts; continue to beat until just blended. Pour batter into prepared pan.
4. Bake for about 35 minutes. Remove from pan, and cool on a wire rack. Ice with Fluffy Boiled Icing. Sprinkle with coconut and chopped maraschino cherries if you wish.