Best Two Egg Cake
Created by acerast on March 6, 2013
- Servings: 16
- Prep Time: 15m
- Cook Time: 25m
- Recipe #8506
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup vegetable shortening
- 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 eggs
- 2 1/4 cups sifted cake flour
- 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup milk, plus
- 2 tablespoons milk
How to Make
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Step 1: Stir shortening to soften.
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Step 2: Gradually add sugar, and cream together until light and fluffy.
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Step 3: Add vanilla.
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Step 4: Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each.
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Step 5: Sift flour, baking powder, salt together 3 times, add to creamed mixture alternately with milk, a little at a time. Beat after each addition till smooth.
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Step 6: Bake in 2 paper-lined 9x1 1/2-inch round pans in moderate oven (375F) for 25 minutes.
Nutritional Facts
- Serving Size: 1 (49.2 g)
- Calories 165.7
- Total Fat - 8.2 g
- Saturated Fat - 2.9 g
- Cholesterol - 26.2 mg
- Sodium - 61.9 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 19.4 g
- Dietary Fiber - 0.7 g
- Sugars - 0.3 g
- Protein - 3.2 g
- Calcium - 70.1 mg
- Iron - 1.7 mg
- Vitamin C - 1.2 mg
- Thiamin - 0.2 mg