i dont like giving low reviews but this recipe did not have a lot of flavor.

great cake. i melt Chocolate to add to the batter for chocolate cake yum

I will not make this "cake" again. It had a texture like cornbread and was very dense. I can't blame this on the fact that i substituted butter for shortening. this is just not as good as advertised.

I did as others recommended and used half butter, half shortening. I cannot imagine how this would be with all shortening. The cupcakes are greasy, crispy on top, and rubbery from the shortening. I will try again with all butter. I will also do as others recommended and cream the butter and sugar together until smooth. Then add the eggs one at a time. I added the eggs and sugar together like the recipe stated, and the batter looked grainy.

Really, an excellent cake, tender, moist, great flavor. I used butter flavored shortening, self-rising flour, and a mixture of skim milk and whipping cream. I definitely will be making it often! Thanks a lot Carolyn!

turned out awesome, I halved the sugar, and it turned out great, best yellow cake recipe.

I must have done something wrong but my husband hated it. it tasted like cornbread.

This was a big hit. I substituted soy milk instead of real...still came out perfect!

i don't care for yellow cake, but i made this for my friends birthday (whose favorite cake is yellow cake...) and everyone LOVED it. a LOT haha

This yellow cake is awesome! It turned out great.

This makes a great cake. It always raises well and tastes good. It's nice and moist too. I have made this with both shortening and butter; I prefer butter. I have also made this with Splenda and it turns out good.

This is an excellent basic cake (definitely better with butter) and requires that the butter be very well creamed with sugar added gradually. Certainly it takes longer than a cake mix but at least it tastes home made. Thanks for a great recipe.

Searching for yet another cake recipe and hoping it would taste better than all the other ones I've tried I stumbled across this one and read all the reviews. I'm glad I found this one because it definitely had a great flavor and texture. I did take other people's advice by using butter instead of shortening. Let me tell you, these were the best cupcakes ever and I will definitely use this recipe again. Thanks for posting it!!

This was the best cake recipe I have come across. I made cupcakes for a party and everyone raved about them. Even suggesting I open a bakery! I substituted the shortening for butter and they were fabulous! For the frosting I simply used butter, confection sugar, a little milk, and raspberry flavoring which always catches people by surprise. Thanks again for posting this awesome recipe!

I made this as my daughter's birthday cake, and while it's not bad, I can't say it's five stars either. I did add some mini chocolate chips to try and make it a chocolate chip cake, but ultimately my issue with this cake is that it's just not quite what I was looking for in a yellow cake. It's not bad - it's a good cake as long as you aren't using too heavy of an icing (the buttercream icing I generally use for birthday cakes was just a smidge too much for it). But it ultimately doesn't have enough of its own flavor to survive with many icings, since I'm still not sure you would have been able to really taste it with a chocolate icing either. I will say that if you're going to serve it without icing, it's quite good. (We had extra and tried some of the extra without icing.) So my suggestion would be to either use a very light icing or glaze, or stick to powdered sugar on this one. In terms of a yellow cake to use with icings, I will be looking elsewhere. So while I would make this again, I probably won't do so unless I'm wanting a cake to use with a light chocolate glaze or just a bit of powdered sugar.

I decided to make cupcakes instead of cake for this recipe. The cupcakes were so light and buttery. They had a good taste. I did do half shortening and half butter. The tops of my cupcakes did get a crispy (like other reviewers stated), but I decided to cover it up with a lot of icing. I will make again! Much better than box.

The flavor was very good. Everyone wanted it without icing; however, it was a little dense and crumbly. It was hard to level out for stacking.