Birthday Cake

Submitted by: admin on April 10, 2020

10 servings

Ingredients

1 ½ cups butter
2 ⅓ cups confectioners' sugar
7 egg yolks
4 ½ cups cake flour
¾ teaspoon salt
2 ½ teaspoons baking powder
1 ¾ cups milk
1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract

Instructions

Step 1
Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease and flour three 8 inch round pans.

Step 2
Sift flour before measuring; resift with salt and baking powder at least twice more.

Step 3
Beat egg yolks until very thick and pale - approximately 5 minutes with a mixer on high speed.

Step 4
In a large bowl, cream butter or margarine and sugar. Blend in eggs. Fold sifted mixture, alternately with milk, into creamed mixture. Stir in vanilla. Pour batter into prepared pans.

Step 5
Bake for 25 to 30 minutes, until cake springs back when touched. Cool in pans for 10 minutes. Turn out, and cool on wire rack. Frost with Decorator Frosting.

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