Layer Cake
"From Mom's recipe box. Her note says "Nana," but I'm not sure which of her grandmothers that refers to."
photo by ChefLee
- Ready In:
- 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Yields:
-
2 8" layers
- Serves:
- 12
ingredients
- 2 cups flour
- 1 1⁄3 cups sugar
- 2 1⁄2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon table salt
- 1⁄2 cup shortening
- 7 fluid ounces milk (1 cup less 2 tbsp)
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons vanilla
- 2 eggs
directions
- Sift together flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. In another bowl, combine milk and vanilla.
- In bowl of stand mixer, or using a hand mixer, cut in shortening. Add 2/3 of milk mixture, then eggs, then the rest of the milk. Beat 2 minutes.
- Butter and flour two 8" cake pans. Divide batter evenly between pans. Bake in preheated 375°F oven until a toothpick inserted in cake comes out clean, 20-30 minutes. Spin pans 180° and swap upper for lower rack after 15 minute.
- Cool 10 minutes in pans, then turn out and cool completely on cooling racks. Fill and frost with your favorite frosting.
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Reviews
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This is a nice cake. It has nice flavor and is not too sweet or salty. I used butter instead of shortening and it worked out pretty well! I filled the cake with recipe#54152 and then frosted it with recipe#151660 so this is a nice cake recipe when you want to create your own flavors!! Thanks Dr. Gaellon!
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
DrGaellon
New Rochelle, 0
I'm a 48 y/o gay Jewish man in the suburbs immediately north of New York City. I'm a general internist, practicing and teaching at a medical college north of NYC. I also earned a Masters in Public Health degree in 2013.
After a Walt Disney World trip in Dec 2006 where I had to rent an electric scooter because I couldn't manage the walking, I decided to have gastric bypass surgery, which was done Feb 28, 2007. I lost 160 lbs (though I've gained back about 60 of that since). I can't eat as much as I used to, so I want every bite to be extra good!
