Happy Birthday Cake

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"This is one of my mother's cake recipes for a birthday. I love this recipe and it tastes great."

SERVINGS & SCALING

Original recipe yield: 1 - 9x13 inch cake

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INGREDIENTS

1 cup butter
2 cups white sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
4 eggs
3 teaspoons baking powder
3 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup milk
1 pinch salt

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DIRECTIONS

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour one 9x13 inch pan or three 8 or 9 inch round layer cake pans.
Cream the butter and sugar together until smooth and fluffy. Mix in the vanilla extract.
Separate the eggs and set the egg whites aside. Add the egg yolks one at a time to the creamed mixture, beating after each one.
Measure the baking powder into the flour, sift a little of the flour into the creamed mixture. Continue adding the flour and the milk alternately, while continually beating the mixture. Beat the cake batter until a few air bubbles show.
Beat the 4 egg whites with a dash of salt until stiff. Gently fold egg whites into the batter. Pour batter into prepared pan(s).
Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) until cake(s) test done, approximately 25 to 35 minutes.

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Reviewed on Jan. 18, 2003 by Rebslo

A good basic recipe. It tasted good.

15 users found this review helpful

Reviewed on Mar. 23, 2006 by Griffilus

I was somewhat disappointed with this recipe after seeing all of the rave reviews. I decorate cakes for a side job and I had a customer who wanted a really good homemade yellow cake for her husband's birthday. I don't get a request for a yellow cake very often so I went looking for a recipe and found this one. I made one for me to try at the same time I made the one to decorate. I did not overbake the cake, followed the directions as is and it came out dry, heavy and very crumbly. The flavor was fair but the texture was awful. I ended up brushing the customer's cake with a vanilla simple syrup and coating it with a glaze before icing it in hopes it would taste better and hold up better. I was hoping for a fluffy, tasty cake but this was not it. I will not make this again.

9 users found this review helpful