Julie's Note: To make your own cake flour, measure 3 cups plain flour into a bowl, then remove 6 Tbsp. of it and put them back into the canister or flour bag. Now, add 6 Tbsp. corn starch to the remaining flour and sift it all together 5 times (at least 5 times, but if you like, you can sift it a couple more times to be sure it is very light). Now you have created your own cake flour and can proceed with your recipe.
I usually make about 12 cups of cake flour at the time, so I don't have to stop and make it every time I need cake flour. Just keep it in a big jar or even a Ziploc Freezer bag well marked so that you know what it is.
When making 12 cups at the time, I'll replace 24 Tbsp. of the flour with 24 Tbsp. of corn starch. Better to do it in 3 cup increments so that you get it all sifted together evenly. It takes a while to sift it as many times as you need to, but it's very necessary you don't skimp on this step.
Keep in mind that you are saving quite a bit of money when you make your own. I never minded doing these things as I'm very much at home in my kitchen and I enjoy all the puttering it takes.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and flour 2 (9 inch) cake pans.
Cream butter, sugar, eggs, and vanilla until well combined.
Sift flour, baking powder, and salt. Add to butter mixture alternately with milk; beating until smooth after each addition.
Bake in prepared pans 30 minutes or until tests clean. Cool in pans on wire rack 10 minutes; remove from pans and let cool completely on rack.
Frost as desired.
Julie's Note: This cake is delicious as a base for strawberry short cake, or filled with all sorts of pureed dried fruit with confectioner's sugar and cream cheese filling, or just add a favorite jelly between the layers while the cake is still hot (crab apple, red currant or strawberry jellies are just perfect).
My children liked it best with red currant filling, and just a light dusting of 10X confectioner's sugar on top.
Source: This was my Mother's recipe, and her Mother's before her. I can remember my Grandmother making her famous fresh coconut cake for the last time using this recipe in 1947.
By Julia from Boca Raton, FL
Sift the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt, then add the softened shortening, first 1/2 cup of milk and vanilla. Beat two minutes. Add eggs and the second 1/2 cup of milk and beat two minutes more.
Bake in greased and floured pans at 350 degrees F. This makes one 9x13 pan.
By latrtatr from Loup City, NE
I would like a recipe for a moist yellow cake. It will be used for a wedding cake.
By Barbara from PA
By firefly57
02/23/2010
The recipe we used for my daughter's wedding is located at www.foodnetwork.com. It is a Paula Dean recipe for a red velvet cake. We didn't use the red food coloring, instead we used lemon flavoring. Some people said that
it was the best wedding cake that they ever had. Oh yes, we used a white chocolate frosting, also. It was truly fantastic!
Does anyone have a slightly easy recipe for yellow cake? None of my cookbooks have it, and I am running out of patience with brand name cooking websites. I think they want me to buy cake mix instead. It is for my son's first birthday. Actually, I was thinking of marble cake. I want to make him a duck shaped cake, so I would like the yellow cake for the white frosting.
Thanks.
Kelly from Willamina, OR
Time: 45 minutes-1 hour at 350-375 degrees F
Method:
Line and butter a deep 8-inch cake tin and set oven temperature at moderate. Cream butter and sugar until light, white, and fluffy. Add beaten eggs, beating well after each addition (if it starts separating just add a spoonful of the flour and then continue with the next egg). Sift the flour and fold in gently, alternately with the milk. Lastly add vanilla essence. Place mixture into the prepared cake tin, smooth over the top and bake for approximately 1 hour or until cooked. The cake should shrink from the sides of the tin when cooked. Cool on a wire rack before icing. Absolutely yummy and sure beats those packet mixes. Enjoy.
Cheers from Katie in OZ (02/01/2006)
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