Ingredients
2 cups sugar
4 large eggs at room temperature
3 cups cake flour or all purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon almond extract
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Preheat Oven to 350 degrees
Grease with shortening and flour 3-9inch cake pans.
Cream butter until whipped; add sugar a little at a time mixing thoroughly and continuously. Do this for a few minutes to insure a smooth texture.Add eggs one at a time mixing well between each one.
Combine the flour with the baking powder and salt in a bowl. You can use a whisk to mix thoroughly.
Have your milk handy too for when you need it. You will add about a third of the flour and mix well. Add a third of the milk and mix well. Continue doing this until you have used all of your flour and milk mixing well.
Add your vanilla and almond extracts mixing well.
Pour your batter evenly into the cake pans. I use a huge spoon to ladle mine in one spoon at a time for even layers.
Bake for 18 to 25 *minutes checking and inserting a wooden toothpick or cake tester to see if done. It will come out clean if cooked. Remove from oven and cool on wire racks for 10 minutes. Take from pans and cool completely on wire racks.* Check the earliest time because homemade cakes can overcook so quickly and they may be dry if they do so.
Tip* Do not over beat batter.
Frost with your favorite frosting. I chose Old Fashioned Chocolate Icing. If you like that sort of thing which I certainly do it is worth the effort to make it.
Old Fashioned Chocolate Icing here
I'm working on a great homemade caramel icing. I can't put my hand on my old recipe so have to as a relative said have a Caramel Icing "Test" Kitchen.
I'll be back with it soon.
Happy Valentines' Day to all!
Sharing some of the comments coming in already about this recipe:
Michelle Cutler of Michelle's Little Piece of Heaven
Just got done making Dolly's scratch yellow cake.
I made cupcakes with some of the batter and a single layer cake with
the rest. I am not a frosting girl so I top it with pomegranate jelly
and powdered sugar. My mouth is doing the happy dance. THIS IS SO GOOD.
For those of you like me who love things from scratch, this is a must !These are really moist. You can see how fluffy they are in the photo .
photo credit
Heidi Gonzales of My Simple Country Living & White Wolf Summit Farmgirl: Oh boy, Dolly is at
it again... making her wonderful FROM SCRATCH recipes. I swear she's trying to
get me FATTER. This one is a MUST have! Homemade yellow layer cake!!!!!!!
Thanks Dolly. You've shared some of the best recipes I've ever tried, and this
one is getting printed and saved tonight!!! I have the BEST friends!
Deborah Jean of Dandelion House: Dolly's recipes are wonderful. We love her coconut pie recipe at Dandelion House!
Thank you all very much!
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