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Buttermilk Cake

Here's how you make Buttermilk Cake
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  • Servings: 16
  • Prep: 15m
  • Cook: 75m
    • The following recipe serves 16 people.

Ingredients

The ingredients are:
  • Cake:
  • 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour, plus
  • 2 teaspoons all-purpose flour
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1 cup butter flavor shortening
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
  • 1/4 teaspoon lemon extract (I omit)
  • 1 cup buttermilk
  • Glaze:
  • 2 cups powdered sugar
  • 1/4 cup orange juice
  • 1/4 cup lemon juice
We recommend you get your ingredients ready before you start cooking. Once you're ready, here are the steps to making this delicious recipe

How to Make

  • Step 1: Preheat oven to 325 degrees, grease and flour a tube cake pan with a removable bottom.

  • Step 2: Cream shortening and sugar in mixer, adding eggs one at a time.

  • Step 3: Whisk dry ingredients in a separate bowl, then mix into batter.

  • Step 4: Stir lemon juice and lemon extract (if using) into buttermilk, then mix into cake batter until just incorporated.

  • Step 5: Pour cake batter into prepared tube cake pan and place pan on a baking sheet covered with aluminum foil, in case it spills over. Bake for 1 hour.

  • Step 6: While cake is cooking, mix together glaze ingredients. When hour is up, slowly pour glaze over cake and return cake to the oven for 3 more minutes.

  • Step 7: Remove cake from oven and let sit for 8 minutes. Then remove from pan. Serve at room temperature.

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