Yellow Cake

By Maudie30

A simple, good old fashioned cake.

Ingredients

• 3 C sifted cake flour
• 2 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 2/3 C room temperature butter
• 1 3/4 C sugar
• 2 eggs, room temperature
• 1 1/2 tsp pure vanilla
• 1 1/4 C milk

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350 degrees, prepare pans.

In a medium bowl, sift together flour, baking powder and salt.
Set aside.

In a mixing bowl, cream together butter, eggs and sugar until light and fluffy. Add vanilla, and eggs, one at a time mixing until incorporated before adding the next egg. Then mix well.

Add flour mixture alternating with milk, beating until incorporated after each addition. Then continue beating 1 minute more.
Pour into pans.

Bake according to pan size.

Cool in pans for 15 minutes, then turn out to finish cooling on a wire rack before frosting.

Makes 6 cups of batter.